The Scramble for Africa

Europeans controlled only ..........of the continent's land, mainly on the coast

Europeans could not navigate African rivers, which had many...........

The introduction of ................., allowed Europeans to conduct major expeditions into the interior of Africa

The ...............devoted themselves to collecting ivory and beeswax in the Angolan highlands

........................, a missionary from Scotland, traveled with a group of Africans deep into central Africa to promote Christianity

......................was hired to find Livingstone.

................................of Belgium commissioned Stanley to help him obtain land in the Congo

Leopold claimed that his primary motive in the Congo was to.................

Leopold II forced the Africans to collect..............from rubber plants.

According to the theory of ................., non-Europeans were considered to be a lower scale of cultural and physical development.

The .................was the world's first automatic machine gun.

Railroad, cables and steamship allowed close ....................within a colony and between the colony and its controlling nation.

.......................protected Europeans from becoming infected with malaria.

...............between ethnic groups, prevented a unified stand.