Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Scramble for Africa
- Beginning
- 1876 - French Initiative in Senegal to
revitalise France through colonial
wealth
- Rail/Military advances spread to 2 other regions.
- Treaties with local nobles
Anmerkungen:
- -1882 treaty ratified by French Assembly with the Tio ruler at Lake Malebo on the River Congo - professed to cede his hereditary nights to the traveller Savorgnon de Brazza
- Treaties in the Lower Niger which threatened long-established British trading interests.
- OBLIGATION - other European powers
feel threatened/obliged to colonise.
- Threatened King Leopold II of Belgium's plans - since 1876 he had used his own
private wealth to establish commercial stations on the lower congo.
- British feared French protectionist regime on lower Congo but did not desire
responsibility there themselves.
- Instead recognised Portugal's ancient claims in the region in return for freedom
to trade there.
- Angered other European Statesmen such as Bismarck.
- Bismarck felt pressured into colonisation to protect German commercial interests in Africa
Anmerkungen:
- Could also earn him some political support.
- Economics