The Scramble for Africa

The term Scrabble for Africa meant how European countries , Spain, Germany, Italy, were so obsessed with the new land that everybody anted Africa for their resources. They were all competing for resources. There resources were gold, wood,rubber, iron, tin, diamond, silver, copper. They were able to dominate Africa because they just inventedthe machine gun and they also found the cure for malaria. With the cure of malaria they were able to go to the jungles and not die of the mosquitoes bites. This Scrabble affected the African people because the whites thought that they dominated the country and that they were the first race and the best race. They took advantage of the African people and made them into slaves. The Europeans killed thousands of Africans and separated people within their tribes leading to also separation of families.