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How Did Paper Treaties Dispossess African Kingdoms? - The Berlin Conference and the Rules of Imperial Conquest | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the winter of 1884, fourteen men from European states and the United States gathered in Berlin to establish rules for claiming a continent their maps showed largely as empty space. But the Africa they divided on paper was not a blank territory waiting to be discovered. It was a vast landscape of functioning political systems, including the Sokoto Caliphate, the Asante Empire, the Zulu Kingdom, and the Ethiopian Empire. This episode examines the profound gap between the European…
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