Berlin Conference

Europeans were interested in Africa’s _________________________

• geography

• Elephants

• natural resources

The main reason that the Berlin Conference was held was because ___________________

• lions

• European nations were worried that claim to territories would lead to war between the powers.

• tigers

• bear

How many countries were invited to the meeting?

• 24

• 14

• 4

• 41

Many of today’s problems in Africa were caused by the

• Berlin Conference

• Scramble for Africa

• World War I

It was fairly easy for European Powers to colonize Africans because

• the did not have access to modern weapons

• there were not many of them

• the native tribes did not get along

Was Africa invited?

• Yes

• No

Europeans needed Natural Resources because

• they needed more resources to sustain industrialization

• to decrease the smog in Great Britian

• because they wanted them

What were the only two independent nations left after the new boundaries were established?

• North and South

• North Korea and South Korea

• Liberia and Ethiopia

The new boundaries cut through more than 190 _________________

• civilizations

• societies

• cultural groups and enclosed more than 100 independent groups with no common culture

A meeting that was held to discuss ways to control the continent of Africa and the inferior race was called?

• scramble for Africa

• Berlin Conference

• Imperialism