2009 DBQ AP World

For years after(prenominal) the Berlin Conference, various European powers raced to occupy and colonize land in Africa. It was a time of growth for Europe, just now what was it for Africa? Africas caboodle was being determined for it by the European invaders. Not e truly AFricans just stood by and go overer, however. There was a wide range of actions and reactions to the Scramble for Africa from the Africans themselves, from freehand in peacefully to attempting to shinnying fanny with wholly of their might.Many Africans were afraid of European power, so they just gave in to the Scramble without a fight. In 1886, the British govern manpowert fit out the Royal Niger Company to administer and organise the Niger River delta. Many African rulers just subscribe their land away doc. 1. This document is semiofficial and provides no personalised repost, so it is feasible that the rulers did non give in exclusively peacefully, all we know is that they gave in. A personal reco rd of the Niger River delta dealing would help vastly to tell how easily the rulers signed.Ashanti leader Prempeh turn down a British supply of protectorate status, but he say that the Ashanti would always remain friendly with all white men doc. 2. Ndansi Kumalo, an African warhorse of the Ndebele Rebellion tells how at first his stack surrendered to the British and tried to continue alert their lives as they always had doc. 4. Samuel Maharero, a Herero leader, wrote to other African leader virtually how the Herero commonwealth were try to be obe let onnt and tolerant with the Germans doc. 7.Many pile in Africa just gave i to the changes occurring all around them. Not everywhere the Europeans went did they encounter this obedience and complacency. Many places people fought the invaders. The emperor of Ethiopia, Menelik II, wrote a letter to slap-up Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia in 1891 telling them he would not just sit by and watch if they continues parc elling off Africa doc. 3. Ndansi Kumalo tells how, after trying to live normally, his people could not tie the Europeans any more and they took up mail against the Europeans and rebelled doc. . An Ethiopian painting of the Battle of Adowa shows the Ethiopians greatly overpowering the Italians and clearly winning the booking while suffering a very few casualties doc. 5.This is an Ethiopian painting so the artist probably depicted the contend to make the Ethiopians look as substantially as possible. A document from the Italians to the highest degree this difference of opinion would make it easier to pass sagaciousness on it. The Ashanti queen mother, Yaa Asantena spoke to the Ashanti chiefs in 1900 telling them that if they would not fight the Europeans the Ashanti women would doc. 6.Samuel Maherero give tongue to in his letter to another African leader that they should fight the Germans as it is reveal to die fighting for freedom than to die from maltreatment, imprisonment, or something similar doc. 7. A German military officer said about the 1905 Maji Maji REbellion that the chiefs told their people that they had a medicate thst would make them invincible so they could fight the Europeans for as long as infallible doc 8.An African chief, Mojimba, described a meshing in 1899 on the Congo River, construction that the battle just kept dismission and going that many, many Africans were killer doc. . He also said that white men are very wicked. As an African who fought the Europeans and saw them kill many of his kin, Mojimba of course thinks that the Europeans are wicker. This account of the battle was also given 30 years after the battle so it might not be entirely accurate. A European account would help to see this battle more clearly. The Scramble for Africa was a strong time for Africans, some Africans fought for a come about at their freedom and others accepted their fate and peacefully gave into the Europeans ways.