The Scramble for Africa

The scramble for Africa is also known as the Race for Africa. The main Europeans nations involved in the race was Germany,Spain,Portugal, and others. They was using Africa for trades and for slavery.The reason they was able to take over Africa so fast was because they had powerful weapons such as machine guns, and pistols and the Africans had spears. The Africans had no choice but to let them because they knew they had no chance of going agaist them without dying. This effected Africa by taking their freedom away.