- LOCATE IN THE MAP THE FOLLOWING: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Western

Sahara & Liberia

- With the term the Scramble for Africa que usually refer to an event that took
place in the late 19th century that led to...

. a) The invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African

territory by European powers during the period of new imperialism, between
1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa and the Conquest of
Africa.

. b) The race among European powers for having exclusive access to resources
developing areas of influence along coastal strips through negotiating with
local chiefs.

• The first Europeans to reach the coast of sub-Saharan Africa and to establish
trade posts along the coast were: British/Spanish/Dutch/Portuguese , They
used this route like stops for their caravels while they were trying to reach
india.

• Spanish conquest of Canary Islands started at the... Beginning of the 14th

century/15th century/16th century/17th century

• The Portuguese conquered Ceuta in the Northern African coast in...

1415/1492/1580

/It was Spain that seized Ceuta and that’s why today is still a Spanish city in
North Africa

After, in 1580 the port of ceuta passed to spain. This city was given to Spain
after the treaty of Lisbon in 1688

• The arrival of the Ottomans forces in the western Mediterranean took place with
the support of the Berber pirates in the... 14th/15th/16th/17th century

The incorporation of North Africa into the Ottoman empire began in

1517. They were helped by the Barbarossas, most famous barbary pirates.
• The Ottoman empire controlled most of the whole North Africa coast except:
Algeria/Egypt/Libya/Morocco

• Though nominally part of the Ottoman Empire for 300 years, the Algiers Regency
held all the characteristics of a sovereign state when the French fleet landed
at Sidi Ferruch in 1830. The port of Algiers became bases for corsair ship.
True of False

• How long was the slave trade a major part of the European-African economic
relations? 100 years/200 years/Over 300 years

• The US did not take part in the Scramble for Africa, but even before the Berlin
Conference was held in 1884 had developed a special strategic and
economic relationship with the present: Sierra Leona/Nigeria/Liberia/South
Africa

• Did Spain attend the Berlin Conference in 1884-5? Yes/No

There were no African representatives at the conference, despite its rhetoric

emphasizing the benefit to Africa.

• During the colonial partition performed by the Berlin Conference only two African
States escaped to this first scramble for Africa: Ethiopia & Liberia/Ethiopia &
Sierra Leone/Egypt & South Africa

• The Dutch stablished a settlement in The Cape when they replaced Portugal
supremacy in the African coasts in the... 16th/17th/18th century

• How many States are there in Africa? 48/52/54/55

• When did the British stablish their colonial rule on the Cape? Beginning of 17th
cent. /Beginning of 18th cent. /19th century/in 1885, following agreements of
Berlin Confer.

• What were the natives of Liberia and Sierra Leone ́s reaction towards the former
black slaves “coming back” to Africa?

. a) The natives showed their solidarity with the victims of slavery, sharing their
 land and helping them to settle in West Africa

. b) The natives considered the freed slaves coming from the US as invaders, and
they would not have sold the land they needed for their settlement if they
were not coerced to do that.

. c) The descendants of the founders of Liberia never integrated fully with the
original inhabitants. Still today, they conform the ethnic group of the
Americo-Liberians that, despite being a minority group, ruled the new nation
from the 19th century until 1980 as a dominant minority

• Since 1975, Morocco is occupying the territory of Western Sahara it occupied

alleging that is had been part of Morocco before the colonial partition. Despite
these more than 40 years of occupation, the UN has not recognized the annexation
and considers that the territory is still a non-self-governing territory. True of False