Examples of Scramble for Africa in the following topics:
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- In the late 19th century, many European powers were involved in the so-called Scramble for Africa, in which many African colonies were established.
- These territories were divided into three classes based on how quickly they would be ready for independence.
- The search for raw materials and new investment opportunities is the result of inter-capitalist rivalry for capital accumulation.
- Dependency theory builds upon Marxist thought, blaming colonialism and neocolonialism for poverty within the world system.
- Semiperipheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but are more developed than peripheral nations.
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- As critical theory, post-colonialism presents, explains, and illustrates the ideology of neo-colonialism, and draws examples from numerous other fields — for instance history, political science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, religion, linguistics, and feminism.
- Especially in the colonization of the Far East and in the "Scramble for Africa" (1870–1914), the idea of a European identity justified the subjugation of indigenous peoples, the exploitation of their labor, and the despoliation of the natural resources of their countries.
- Postcolonial literature is a body of literary writing that responds to the intellectual discourse of European colonization in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, and other post-colonial areas throughout the globe.
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- Unlike in other territories in Africa, no powerful ancient or medieval kingdoms and empires served as predecessors of the Namibian state today.
- The San (also called Bushmen) are generally assumed to have been the earliest inhabitants of the region comprising today's Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa.
- It is believed that they separated themselves early on from their Bantu brothers of Southern and Central Africa and moved to Southwest Africa.
- The first European to set foot on Namibian soil was the Portuguese Diogo Cão, in 1485 during an exploratory mission along the west coast of Africa.
- It was not until the 19th century, when European powers sought to carve up the African continent between them in the so-called Scramble for Africa, that Europeans—predominately Germany and Great Britain— became interested in Namibia.
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- The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom
had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century (Scramble of Africa).
- For Adolf Hitler, the Eastern Front dwarfed the desert war, which was a holding action of secondary importance.
- An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea, and prepare for an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943.
- The Vichy army in North Africa joined the Allies.
- This defeat in Africa led to all Italian colonies in Africa being captured.
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- This historic moment in 1492 sparked new rivalries among European powers as they scrambled to create New World colonies, fueled by the quest for wealth and power as well as by religious passions.
- By the beginning of the 17th century, Spain’s rivals—England, France, and the Dutch Republic—had each established an Atlantic presence in the race for imperial power.
- English colonists in Virginia suffered greatly; however, the colony at Jamestown survived, and the output of England’s islands in the West Indies soon grew to be an important source of income for the country.
- New France and New Netherlands were modest colonial holdings in the northeast of the continent, but these colonies’ thriving fur trade and alliances with indigenous peoples helped to create the foundation for later shifts in the global balance of power.
- West Africa, a diverse and culturally rich area, soon entered the stage as other nations exploited its slave trade and brought its peoples to the New World in chains.
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- By the first millennium BCE, ironworking had begun in Northern Africa and quickly spread across the Sahara into the northern parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
- European exploration of Africa began with Ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Islamic North Africa became diverse and a hub for mystics, scholars, jurists and philosophers.
- These included small family groups of hunter-gatherers, such as the San people of southern Africa; larger, more structured groups, such as the family clan groupings of the Bantu-speaking people of central and southern Africa; heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Sahelian kingdoms; autonomous city-states and kingdoms such as those of the Akan; Edo people, Yoruba and Igbo people (also misspelled as Ibo) in West Africa; and the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa.
- Slavery had long been practiced in Africa.
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- Email represents a potential IT risk and entry point for hackers, and so IT teams must integrate appropriate safeguards.
- Encryption - Encryption takes a message and scrambles the contents of that message upon sending.
- For example, business partners may agree on a password that will unlock the contents of an email and verify the sender while protecting the contents during transmission.
- Anti-virus Software - Anti-virus programs are designed to record libraries of data on common viruses, and scan all incoming email traffic (as well as internal files and databases) for signs of malicious software.
- Intrusion detection systems (IDS) - Similar to anti-viruses, these programs scan devices and networks for malicious activity or violations to the preset policies.
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- For centuries slave and gold trade routes linking West Africa with the Mediterranean passed over the Western Sahara Desert, controlled by the moors of North Africa.
- Henry wished to know how far Muslim territories in Africa extended, hoping to bypass them and trade directly with West Africa by sea.
- For celestial navigation the Portuguese used the Ephemerides, which experienced a remarkable diffusion in the 15th century.
- By 1583, they had destroyed the Afro-Muslim Zendj civilization of East Africa that competed with them for the African trade.
- Portugal intervened militarily in these conflicts, creating the basis for their colony of Angola.
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- The architecture of Africa, like that of any vast region or continent, is exceptionally diverse.
- The Islamic conquest of North Africa saw the development of Islamic architecture in the region; western architecture has had an impact on coastal areas since the late 15th century, and is now an important source for many buildings, particularly in major cities.
- North Africa primarily used stone and rammed earth; West Africa tends toward mud and adobe; central Africa uses thatch, wood, and more perishable materials; southern Africa uses stone, thatch, and wood; and in East Africa the materials have varied.
- A few buildings were pre-fabricated in Europe and shipped over for erection.
- Neo-vernacular architecture, or new forms of vernacular architecture, continues, for instance with the Great Mosques of Nioro or New Gourna.
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- The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group.
- The primary evidence for this expansion has been linguistic, namely that the languages spoken in sub-Equatorial Africa are remarkably similar to each other.
- The expansion eventually reached South Africa as early as 300 CE.
- Within a year he had conquered the neighboring clans and had made the Zulu into the most important ally of the large Mtetwa clan, which was in competition with the Ndwandwe clan for domination of the northern part of modern-day KwaZulu-Natal.
- They are spoken mostly east and south of present-day Cameroon, that is, in the regions commonly known as Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa.