How was an Entire Continent Annexed in 1 year? - The Scramble of Africa 

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One mistake, von Bismarck was actually opposed to german colonies but the Kaiser made a series of speeches that made it impossible for Bismarck to oppose it without damaging german prestige, therefore calling for the Berlin Conference.

A small mistake on the map was that Djibouti was a French colony, not English and Italian.

It is not about bad guys hurting good guys, it is about stronger taking advantage of the weaker. Weren't african tribes themselves fighting with each other over the lands and power too? I bet have the africans had the power, level of technical development, they would have gone abroad to win the territories the very same way. Why? Because African or European - we are all the same both in our virtues and in our vices! Thirst for power and ambition is all there since the beginning of the world.

Even the representation of how Europe divided Africa is Eurocentric. In 1884 there were already states in North Africa. Morocco, Ottoman Empire, Egypt etc and Ethiopia in the East. Showing them as blank stateless lands is interesting to say the least.

As a Spaniard, I’d like to say that the Spanish presence in Africa had important repercussions on later events in the history of Spain 🇪🇸. On the one hand, in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco the Army of Africa was formed, whose move to the metropolitan territory would be key in the development of the uprising and subsequent Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Regarding the Spanish Sahara, in 1975 Spain signed the Madrid Tripartite Agreement with Morocco 🇲🇦 and Mauritania 🇲🇷, interrupted its decolonization process and abandoned the territory in 1976 but without transferring its sovereignty over it or its status as an administering power. Since then, Western Sahara 🇪🇭 has been a disputed territory between Morocco and the Sahrawis and the UN 🇺🇳 continues to consider Spain as the de jure administrative power.

the problem was not that the europeans colonised african regions its when they started dehumamnising africans and sort of gave permission to do whatever inhuman activities i dont think at that time it was morally ok for europeans to do the same to other europeans

Africa: exists Europeans: it's free real estate

One important event that triggered the panic and haste of the scramble was the British occupation of Egypt and the Suez canal, thus leading to Berlin Conference for the Scramble. As a side note: at the start Bismarck didn't really care about colonies but it isn't quite clear why he changed his mind. Worth mentioning that the colonization of Africa was not a unitary process made by the European states but it took on a live of it's own, with explorers doing their own things regardless of their governments.

What's really interesting to me is that, for all the lands conquered by European nations over the past five hundred or so years, look at what they have now. When you look at a map, Europe and nations that make it up are so small when compared to the continents and nations they once ruled over.

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Great video ! Thought i'd give some context around a particular case ; One of the challenges that faced colonialism in North Africa, is the fact that a cultural identity was already established, and that connection with the outside world was very much alive. I don't know about neighbouring countries, but even though Tunisia was officially a part of the Ottoman Empire, it was pretty much autonomous, and has been since the late 18th century. It's fair to say that by the time French colonialism rolled around, Tunisia has already matured enough politically, which is one of the reasons French occupation wasn't straightforward and recognized Tunisia as a "protectorate" rather than a colony . However, it was the economic factor that facilitated French rule over Tunisia, debts were the death of the "Beylik Of Tunis"

Great idea for a video!

Taken on a map, sure, but how much of the continent outside of South Africa had non-trivial European settlement? (And not just resource extraction)

Can't believe this was happening just 100 years ago

My problem with this ideology of history reports is that the group that is accused of being colonizers is not specific enough. The average person had no interest in colonizing, the slave trade,etc. or had very little knowledge of what was happening in those countries at the time. I feel it is biased to blame the whole society when it has always been the greedy, power-hungry wealthy class.

Video with great efforts

Africa was last, or 2nd to last (depends on Asia or Pasific) to be colonialist. While Portugal started (as always) with others, it wasn't all settled until mid/late 1800s as early 1800s saw Americas break away.

It most certainly did not take 1 year to take over Africa. It took all the way until October 3, 1935 when Mussolini's Italy finally took Ethiopia. And even then, there was still Liberia.

Have you done anything on the Arab Slave Trade yet? There's plenty of material there.

I would Like another Video about the topic and why for example countries like the Netherlands , Austria Hungary, Greece, Russia, Sweden and Denmark got no terretories from the Berlin conforence

“Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. Right, as the world goes, is only a question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” -Thucydides

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Its too bad that the few videos these "history channels" about Africa are about how Africa and black people are victimized as opposed to really learning about it's great culture and civilizations. Most of these channels are undoubtedly run by European or white men and are just reinforcing a European and male centric view of history.

I love this

Thank you for your incredible videos l have been watching you since an year , and l have new ideas for you like Cold War , Australia history , space invasion by The Soviet and American .

British fought against the Marathas to gain land, not the Moghuls. Except Bengal, most of North and Central India then was under Maratha confederation. The Marathas commanded a professional modern army at par with British troops in India. However, the confederation was too decentralised, leading to a disunited front against British.

do a video about the footprints.

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Shocking and brutal. I know this is just about Africa but can we have a vid about how the U.S. took the East of their country from Mexico and how they then took over the Philippines from the Spanish.

Portugal first colonized the Kenyan Coast and made trading posts at the Kenyan coast, prior to the British coming to Kenya

African countries had been European colonies, and it now is a diverse continent.

You forgot to mention the African people and soldiers that joined their European governments and fought for them.

What was the music as 1:31

Have you changed the people in charge? a lot of biased videos lately.

Easy when taken in to account how much more advanced Western Civilization was compared to African Civilization.

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Can you talk about the colony of the Falklands islands

Idk why we ignore that Ethiopia was a colonial power that expanded its territory during same time period. It isn't any less bad to the colonized

Continue with this process ❤❤ i like the history ❤

the marshall plan for european reconstruction was 13.6B in 1950( 165.1B adjusted for inflation) the continent of afrika ha been given 2.6 trillion since 1960. think about that, really let that marinate.

España no participó en La Conferencia De Berlín, No tenía nada que reclamar,

Amazing that there were no major wars like the ones between France and England in Canada or India 🇮🇳

Nevermind the Arabization of Northern and Eastern Africa 🙄

Why is the Ottoman Empire always left out of this conversation? They had territory in Northern Africa and lots of political influence in Northern Africa.

Are we going to forget about the ottoman empire African colonies such as Algeria, Sudan, Tripoli, and Tunisia which they lost to the French In the 18th century.

3:02 One of the biggest & darkest jokes in history💀.

‏‪ ‏‪3:53‬‏ This is scary. They all came together to divide Africa between them as if it were a cake

Thanking the Europeans for bringing civilization and technologies to Africa like they did in the Americas.

in the map there is an error, italy control corsica, that was/is french.

The video was informative but you made a mistake on the map briitish owned egypt and sudan controled lybian east territories known as kufra

As it is now... I like how the European powers reached Africa first before the ottomans or other powers.. Though I won't look at colonisation as good but it is what it is. The stronger always have a way. It has some advantages coz I prefer the western way of life I enjoy today, though am African.

#Knowledgia Corsica is a part of france not italy since 1768

They had had practice with Commonwealth earlier

Ethiopians were collaborating with Europeans whilst Somalis were fighting them

Thank you for the video. What an awful situation this was, and we're all still dealing with the repercussions, decades and centuries later with colonialism in Africa. What can we do. 🤷‍♂️ Humans are just the worst sometimes.

Thanks!

Some African colonies still exist . Albeit small in the north or islands.

Why Netherlands didn't receive any colony on Berlin Conference?

How about the Dutch in South Africa?

There’s a book the argument for colonialism that debunks a lot of the Congo story. Most of the atrocities were done before the king was involved. They were greatly exaggerated and have proof of the population staying steady

Absolute European W. Veni Vidi Vici.

Skills and technology. They were just nowhere near the same development. Easy picking. Just like the Americas

Von Bismarck caused the partition of Africa and prevented various European powers from fighting each other

🍃👩🏻Africa split into 7 pieces, so what part of Africa belongs to the Africans?🍃

10:31 / 10:49

Only rif, north morroco Rif soldiers defeated Spain and fight against France same time Zenata imazighen

Be proud of your history and culture 💪🏻💪🏻

Italian Corsica💪

7:50 cool Italian Corsica, like, it totally wasnt a French island, totally, and it totally isnt a French island to this day, totally

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Few European countries did what many other nations have done over human history. Technology just allowed the selected few to be more succesful in the invasion then prior nations had been.

In the same way that the visiting aliens are going to split the whole of humanity amongst themselves if we don't wake up to the reality that a silent colonization/invasion is underway. To learn about this, I recommend reading The Allies of Humanity briefings.

I always find it hard to judge (people of) the past with the moral values of our current time. I think it is better to use the general values of that time, that is what the people of that time could use to judge their actions. Even in Europe itself there was constant fighting and conquering, I am not sure colonization was really wrong at that time. Everybody tried to get their way by conquering, that wasn't exclusive to Europeans. They were just the best at it. The way they treated the people in the colonized areas was probably wrong though, that was different in the colonies than it was in Europe itself. For myself, I am quite proud of the spirit of my forefathers, exploring the world and being really good at it. I admire the strive to be the best and advance in the world. But I do reject the measures they used, especially the behavior against the local population. They didn't take the chance to help them advance but only exploited them. Of course, my opinion isn't that important.

The triumphant and revisionist tone of this video is infuriating to an African honestly,you fail to discuss how Africans struggled and resisted European colonization,how many battles were fought and some were failures,how in many instances Europeans would often use thievery and trickery in treaties they made with African rulers and would pit royal houses and kingdoms to fight each other and weakened before moving to conquer them.This video was just a compliment to European colonization of Africa

Africa and Haiti got the worst of it when it came to colonization. India too.

And what about Swedish colonialism in Laponia?

U guys forget ottoman empire controlled most of north africa upto 1900s

Well, they're not wrong. Look at what Africa has produced until now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

7:17 Maybe it was a prank or paranormal, especially the way he fell.. Like his legs were pulled from underneath and his feet are shaking, his body was taken by an invisible entity. This looks real to me, but I am amazed and surprised how not ONE person, came to the gentleman's aid. The dude in the vehicle continued speaking and did not seem to care.. Sad world we live in. Animals care about other animals at times.. Even helping a porcupine cross the road.. What the heck happened to the human heart? ❤

"it especially made sense when europeans discovered new resources in Africa such as coffee sugar and rubber." No. Sugar cane has been cultivated for more than 10000 years. The primary rubber tree was discovered in South America and domesticated there and plantations were created elsewhere much later. Coffee did come from Ethiopia but took a century to become popular and certainly wasn't used to justify going to Africa in the first place.

WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTIONED INDEPENDENT STATES CLEARLY ?

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Ethiopia 🇪🇹: 🍷🗿

The best Africa 🥳

I’m happy that the British got rid of slavery in Africa

good times

All in the past now don't think for a second that modern Europeans should be apologetic for this ancestral behaviour. What's done can't be undone 'Shakespeare'

Oh my I remember the Congo 🧓

But it is totally justifiable for Europeans to colonize, weren't peoples of these land inferior intellactually and technogically?

Based Europe.

Europe finessed

As a white man with Polish ancestry. I feel Africa's pain 😅

I wonder why when the “poor black people” are in the discourse, all the supposed unbiased history gets thrown out of the window for emotional storytelling

It is Somalia not Somaliland 0:44

What bothers me is when people think about Sub Saharan Africans they think Zulu or a Stone Age people which is unfair. 1. Sub Saharan Africans have one of the oldest records of Iron metallurgy that is believed to be older than Europeans and it started in the interior which supports it was done independently. Their also as far as I know the only civilization that never had a Bronze Age they just went from Stone to iron. And they were very skilled at it with spears, swords, axes etc. 2. Many of them had many large cities of their own using wood and earth work. Some did have stone architecture like Great Zimbabwe but earth constructs were cooler and better for hotter environments. The Kingdom of Benin, Mali, Songhai, the sultanates of Somalia, the Abyssinian Empire, Ashanti Empire, Kanem Bornu all were large powerful empires that were wealthy and powerful. But then came the industrialization which gave Europeans a huge edge and medieval weaponry is no match for repeating firearms and machine guns. China had the advantage of being to big and far away to be colonies while Africa was right next door to Europe and they had the raw material they needed to fuel their going industry and their low opinion of Africans over the centuries did not help. It’s what they use to justify everything they did. But so much of their civilization like architecture, art, history, economy etc was destroyed and there are people who try to act like it never happened which is just insult to injury. I’m just glad more people are realizing that just like Eurasian Culture, Sub Saharan African also made their own incredible achievements and they deserve the recognition.

We brought civilization, order and infrastructures.

Proud to be ethiopian never colonized we fought off the muslim conquests and european colonization though we did get occupied by itsly for 5 yesrs but they never fully controlled us. 🇪🇹💪

Damn. This video got fact checked left, right, ans center. Does this mean the end of DEI and ESG?