Berlin Conference
international conference that regulated the distribution of European colonization and trade in Africa
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The Berlin Conference was an international gathering where European nations negotiated rules for dividing up Africa and establishing their colonies and trade rights there. It matters because it fundamentally reshaped the African continent by allowing European powers to claim vast territories with little input from African peoples themselves.
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The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung Press cartoon published in L'Illustration on 3 January 1885, showing German Chancellor Bismarck about to partition Africa
His Serene Highness Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg