There were numerous things that attracted the Europeans to Africa during the 1800's. One thing was spreading Christianity and also slavery.
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Europeans first saw West Africa as a new territory to obtain spices and agricultural products. West Africa was also a place for Europeans to trade their own goods.
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Europeans discovered that Southeast Asia was rich in mineral and agricultural resources (apex)
In the 19th Century. Europe owned practically all of Africa then, but not all of these African possessions were conquered in an outright military way. In some cases the Europeans arrived as traders and explorers, and before long they were administrators.
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Powerful African Armies Were Able To Keep The Europeans Out Of Most Of Africa For 400 Years
The discoveries of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1886 in South Africa increased Europeans interest in colonizing the continent
No, not even close. The land and its resources were always the priority.
At that early point in the history of colonial Africa most borders were based on geographical features, primarily rivers.
The maxim gun,invented in1884, was the world's first automatic machine gun
Antarctica, in the 1800s, was the last continent to be discovered by Europeans.
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They weren't attracted to it. They didn't know it existed until they found it.
They explored Africa.
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