Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1133 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sub-Saharan Africa: Berlin, Boundaries, Neocolonialism
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The idea
The Sahara divides an Arab, Muslim north from the south. Farming began about ten thousand years ago, women the primary farmers. At the Berlin Conference of eighteen eighty-four thirteen European countries and the United States set the rules for claiming Africa; about ninety percent was soon European-controlled.
In practice
Forty-eight countries; one-third urban.
Where people slip
Neocolonialism: economic control after political control ended.
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