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Gold drew Europeans to Africa. That's how Europe got into to the slave trade
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Africans started to trade the trans-Saharans to the Europeans
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The Europeans started to make trade posts in the 1500s
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The Southern and Eastern parts of Africa was colonized in the 1600s
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The slave trade was outlawed in the 1800s
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Europe started to take over Africa
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When the 1900s came around, Africa regained their power over there land
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By the 1900s Europe has divided Africa into colonies
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South Africa started to gain independence early as the 1910s
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South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910
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The Kikuyu started a political organization for independence in the 1920s
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Ethiopia was the only independent colonized place, but later got invaded by Italy in 1930
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Africa started to gain independence in the 1940s
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The genocide caused Hutu military and militia groups killed to an estimated 800,000
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South Africa adopted apartheid for a strict policy between races in 1948
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became independent in 1960
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Sudan gained independence in 1956
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The Belgium Congo gained independence in 1960
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Nelson played a key role in putting an end to apartheid, but he was jailed in 1962
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Kenya became independencet in 1963
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Most of Africa became independent during 1950-1970
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The Belgium Congo named changed to Zaire in 1965
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Nigeria was an oil-rich region before the ethnic group Igbo tried to leave in 1967, which cause a bloody civil war
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Nelson gets released in 1990 then made a contract with the president to end apartheid
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The president finally realized that apartheid was destroying them apart
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In 1994 all of the races in South Africa voted for Nelson to become president
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In Darfur, there was a war against black farmers and the Arab headers
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The civil wars in Africa continued into 2005
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President Mubarak was forced to resign in 2011 from the Arab Spring
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A movement of more democracy was named; Arab Spring
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South Sudan became independent in 2011
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Tunisia's dictator resigned in January of 2011
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The king of Morocco issued a new constitution that voters approved of
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Muammar Qaddafi was killed in October 2011
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The Egyptians elected Mohammed Morsi in 2012
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The military imprisoned Morsi and also banned all of his political party
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Europeans started to make long sea voyages, they learned the riches of Africa and beyond the Sahara