HIS 1307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Herero People, Social Darwinism
23 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Germany seeked to follow britain in colonizations, as they began to colonize africa. Competition with british lead to tensions of wwi. Friedrich fabri argues for colonization, saying it is not for the expansion of. German power but for fulfilling a moral duty . It would be well if we germans began to learn from the colonial destiny of our. Anglosaxon cousins and emulate them in peaceful competition. Africa was a challenge to european imperialists due to deadly diseases, impeneterable rainforests, debilitating climate and the native peoples. The natines were trading slaves amongst themselves and with the arabs, long after westeners had banned slave trading in africa. The profound inequality in military and political power between europeans and. Africans lived mostly in small communities divided by over one thousand languages; a few large states like. Mali and songai had grown up under muslim influence but had collapsed by the sixteenth century.
