"The scramble for africa"

The "Scramble for Africa" began in 1881. When Europeans began to expand their influence in Africa. This was called "The scramble for Africa" because the Europeans would claim or take whatever piece of land they wanted. This scramble effected Africa a lot. When the Europeans mixed up the lands they put enemies together and they even split up families. The main european nations involved in the scramble for africa were Spain, Britian, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, and Belgium. All of these european nations had a huge technological advance over Afruca. They had weapons,food,medicin;etc. These advantages made it easy for the europeans to eventually conquer africa.