Marked Berlin

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Scramble for Africa

In about thirty years, European powers seized almost all of Africa, dividing it at meetings like the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885. Only Ethiopia and Liberia stayed independent. Africans resisted everywhere.

Place
Berlin · Kumasi · Adwa · The CongoAfrica, Europe
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IAfrica in 1880
  2. IIThe Berlin Conference
  3. IIILines on a map
  4. IVThe Congo Free State
  5. VResistance: Samori Touré and the Asante
  6. VIAdwa, 1896

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Leopold II
  • Samori Touré
  • Yaa Asantewaa
  • Menelik II
  • Taytu Betul
  • Cecil Rhodes

Objects

  • Maps of the partition
  • The Golden Stool (never captured)

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1881 to 1914. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?