This unit showed many horrible events about this time period, from the working conditions in Industrial European countries to the systematic takeover and destruction of the African way of life. And the root of all these events is the hypocrisy held by the European Countries brought on by the Congress of Vienna.
The events in this time period all stemmed from the regulations in the Congress of Vienna. The first domino in the whole chain begins with the regulations set by the Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna created an even larger power gap between the countries that had industrialized and those that hadn't, and though the rules were directly set by representatives from the European countries none were actually followed. "The Great
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Africa of course, and most all European countries and the US decided around the same time to colonize it. They again decided to lay out ground rules such as the Congress of Vienna in a new meeting called the Berlin Conference. There were many benefits to the Europeans from colonizing Africa. "Look again at the extra employment a new country added to our domain gives." And Cecil Rhodes goes on to say "Just fancy those parts that were inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings." (Confessions of Faith, 1877) A belief commonly held by the imperializing Europeans. An employment force and as the French said in Imperial conquest: a Nation's Savior " we will be able to secure at the source of production, the primary materials needed in factories." A workforce that is seen as subhuman is a very efficient one, plentiful primary resources, and plentiful tribes, now as the Berlin Conferences makes it sound under the control and protection of those who settle on their land, really have to buy products from their new European overlords, all combine to make a perfect area to create an empire for a