Scramble for Africa humanities 10-30-13

    During the scramble for Africa, I learned that even though the countries may have had simple goal to accomplish, it was very difficult to choose which countries to capture. They had to keep the most efficient countries and not take over any countries that wouldn't be of any importance to them.
      I also learned that when the berlin conference was going in, the politics and Representatives probably thought of the territories only for the resources, and nothing of the people or culture there. They also probably had to fight for territory, like we had to do in this game. So what we saw on the map may have not been what the Representatives wanted, because they were overtaken by other countries, and also had their territories stolen from them.
     Imperialism was a horrible thing. Even though the wording was different, it still meant an invasion of Africa. No locals had any say in it, and had to obey every command they were given. They had their land split up by foreigners, who only did it because they felt like it. It practically meant that they were acting childish, and just because they felt like it, they got whatever they wanted.
    This game also showed me just how little of Africa was not controlled by foreigners. The territories were literally specks on the map. The country that I had was France.  They took up most of the north west part of Africa. They used that area for who knows what. They probably just wanted to take up as much space as they could so they wouldn't look weak. The same probably went for the other countries as well. They wanted to show that they were also a force to be reckoned with, and all decided to use Africa as a showcase for their power. They thought of Africa as a bunch of rural countries without any significance, so they decided to take it over.
   The infographic and the game both taught me that they European countries did not go  to Africa to help the people there. They went to Africa only to strip the land of it resources and leave the people with nothing.