The Scramble for Africa

I think that the term " Scramble for Ameria" is basically talking about how the end of the 18th century colonialism seemed to have a thing of the past. Britain had lost its Thirteen Colonies in America, Spain and Portugal that lost most of South America and Holland had a hard time holding onto the East Indies. Afica seen the most dramatic colonisation, it was divided up as if it been a cake split between greedy Euopean leaders. The main Europeans that were involved in the scramble of Africa was France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. All these nations were looking for the rich natural resource and land. Since Europeans believed they were the best race in the world they believed that they could take over any country they wanted to. They would use these natural resources to make new manufacture goods for the people of Europe and also to sell to the people of Africa. They would also send these new resources back to Europe to become goods for the people. Theses nations would also take control of the areas because the more land they controlled the more power they had. This Scramble affect the African people in the way that they were slaves. They were treated badly and were used as a trade known as slave trade.