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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by diplomacy the body of water

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full of bachelors degrees and take a look vehement right

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there Conference at berlin here's today's question after the conference

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of berlin what was the most devastating long term effect

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of the scramble for africa And here your potential answers

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thinking about eggs here All right well the european colonists

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were like the worst house guests you can ever imagine

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like guests that you didn't even invite And who stole

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all your stuff in your house and then destroyed all

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of it treated you terribly and murdered pretty much everyone

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you know So yeah a lot worse than your buddy

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road tripping across america currently bumming on your catch Well

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the worst part was they didn't just do the whole

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take your land and oppress your people think they actually

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devastated the continent for generations to come And how did

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they do that Well and we know this might come

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as a gigantic surprise to you but it wasn't through

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the promotion of equality shocking We know that eliminates a

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and it wasn't seat annexation either Annexation is the political

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Transition of the control of land from one power to

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another and while annexation was sort of what started this

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whole thing it wasn't what devastated africa for years to

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come In fact some africans living on european controlled land

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actually experienced a better standard of living if they aligned

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with the europeans Of course they probably would have preferred

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teo you know control their own land but when life

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gives you oppression we'll make lemonade right You know that

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might not be how the saying goes but whatever was

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an effect of the scramble for africa d diplomacy actually

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colonialism ended up creating tension between european powers and was

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a stepping stone a world war just in case you

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didn't think it could get any worse that's kind of

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the secret formula for history it can always get worse

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that eliminates d so that must mean that the most

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devastating long term effect the scramble for africa was be

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apartheid apartheid the system of racial segregation that was instituted

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in south africa and it had the most extreme and

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longstanding impacts there It wasn't officially ended until nineteen ninety

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four and its segregating effects are still being felt to

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this day so b is the correct answer Well we

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know that learning about the scramble for africa can weigh

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pretty heavy on you Not all scramble zahra's Delicious as

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those made with eggs and cheese and stuff But feel

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free to treat yourself to one and you deserve it

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