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Unfortunately, slavery was a part of the economy of Africa before the arrival of the Europeans.
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the Golden Age of Exploration, Europeans began to sail south around the continent of Africa.
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there was an attempt to reach the wealth of silks and spices found in India and China.
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the Europeans greatly increased the trade in enslaved people in Africa Beginning in the 1500s.
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Africa, cause greater fighting among different groups which weakened everyone and made it easier for Europeans to take over.
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Those slaves were then transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to work on sugar, rice and cotton plantations.
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As many as 13 million people may have been forcibly removed from their homeland. It is estimated that 20% or more of those taken did not survive the Middle Passage; the journey across the ocean from Africa to the Americas.
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The increase in the number of guns available to people living in Africa, cause greater fighting among different groups which weakened everyone and made it easier for Europeans to take over.
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It is estimated that 20% or more of those taken did not survive the Middle Passage; the journey across the ocean from Africa to the Americas.
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Slavery was just the beginning.
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The Europeans began to build trading posts in Africa in the 1500s and by the early 1800s.
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They were colonizing or taking over another country for the resources it can provide.
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Europeans knew that Africa had many resources and important trade routes.
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They wanted to control them.
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Britain began by seizing Egypt to gain control of the Suez Canal
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A man made waterway connecting the Mediteranean Sea to the Red Sea.
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France took control over most of western North Africa.
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Spain and Italy also gained territory in Morocco and Somalia.
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Britain grabbed more land in western, central and southern Africa while France seized most of West Africa.
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Germany and Portugal also claimed land in Africa south of the Sahara.
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By 1900 Europe had grabbed nearly all of Africa.
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The only country to remain uncolonized was Ethiopia.
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By for, the worst of the colonies established by European countries was the Belgium Congo.
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Though Italy did invade the country in 1930.
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However, nearly all Africans suffered under colonial rule as their land was taken.
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hough Europeans banned slavery, and built schools, hospitals, roads and railroads.
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they were forced to work for little or no pay and any attempt to rebel was violently crushed.
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In the mid 1900s inspired by the events of World War II Africans began to seriously rebel against colonization.
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European colonization devastated the people and cultures of Africa.
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