"The Scramble for Africa"

The scramble of Africa is all about the time when different nations and different leaders tries to take over different countries of Africa. In 1400s the Portuguese started to trade at the coastline of Africa. In 1600s the Dutch established trade in the southwestern tip of Africa. In 1870s Belgium started a trade with Africa in Congo. After that many European countries such as France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal tried to invade Africa in order of trade the natural resources that almost every country needed. That is called the scramble of Africa. The countries were able to take over Africa so easily because of how weak the Africans were in terms of technology. African people couldn't defend them self from westernized technology such as guns and cannons etc. The people in Africa were forced to work for the foreign countries and turned into slaves in their own homeland.