History activity, aimed at first year high school students, with questions developed about sharing Africa.
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There is no textbook, entrance exam or correct answer from Enem that does not attribute poverty and Africa's internal conflicts to a main factor: the partition of the African continent by Europeans. These borders would have pushed several nations and ethnic groups together in the same territory, causing chaos to reign in Africa. However, wars between rival nations and disputes over the succession of thrones existed long before Europeans reached the interior of Africa. Serious ethnic conflicts also took place in countries that had their borders maintained by European governments. It's amazing that such a fragile and generalist theory has lasted so long – it's probably because it serves to feed the condescension of those who take Africans as “good savages” and try to exempt them from responsibility for their problems.
(Leandro Narloch. Politically Incorrect Guide to World History, 2013. Adapted.)
1) The African continent had been explored since the 16th century, but until 1870 very little was known about the interior, because:
a) The focus was on the coastal trade
b) Most of the colonized areas were on the coast
c) The slave trade was better on the coast
d) The king did not want expansion inland
2) In 1832, France had already conquered Algeria, from where it expanded to Tunisia in 1881. To avoid greater tensions over control of African territory, it took place in 1885:
a) Berlin Conference
b) Tunisian Conference
c) Paris Commune
d) Paris Assembly
3) As an example of conflict of interests in Africa, there was the Boer War (1899-1902), between settlers of Dutch origin and the British, after:
a) Opening of the East India Company
b) Algeciras Conference
c) Discovery of gold and diamond deposits in the region
d) Germany Conference
4) As early as 1904, Great Britain made a secret agreement with France that broke the agreement signed in Berlin in the year 1885, as the French would have support to expand their domains to Morocco, while the French British people:
a) They would dominate the Transvaal region
b) rule over Egypt
c) They would dominate Algeria
d) would dominate the Congo
5) In 1911, Germany and France signed an agreement under which part of the French Congo would pass under German control, in exchange:
a) Special interests
b) The annexation of Spain
c) 20% of the African continent
d) The annexation of Morocco by France
Per Camila Farias.
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