Directions for Berlin Conference Simulation
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Name: Directions for Berlin Conference Simulation 1. Arrange your desks so that everyone can reach the map of Africa, which should be in the middle of the desks. 2. If you have 5 people in your group distribute the role cards from the envelope as follows: Britain to one person, France to one person, Germany and Spain to one person, Belgium and Italy to one person, and Netherlands and Portugal to one person. If you have 6 people in your group distribute as above but give Germany and Spain to different group members. Also give each group member a different colored pencil(s) for each country that he/she represents. Britain is one color, France another, Germany another, Spain another color and so on… (Some people will need two colored pencils, others only one.) 3. Next each group member should read his or her role cards and answer questions 1 and 2 on his/her worksheet. Please use the atlases and resource sheets at your group to help you.
4. Next, you are going to divide up Africa based on the areas that you want most. This should be based on your role cards and the map that you just created on your paper. Have Great Britain start the game by taking the quarter and his/her colored pencil and outlining one area with the quarter that his/her country wants. Next pass the quarter to the next player and he/she will do the same thing. Go one at a time in a circle and create colonial boundaries for Africa. Those players with two countries need to alternate between each country. The player representing the Netherlands does not get to take any land until he/she beats Great Britain in a best of three game of rock, paper, scissors. Continue playing until time is called by the teacher or Africa is all divided up. Additional info for groups of six – play as above, but those players representing Germany and Spain will use a dime instead of a quarter on their turns. Play!! France The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. France has colonial outposts established along the west coast of Africa and extending inland approximately 500 miles east of Lake Chad and north to the Mediterranean Sea. French colonial outposts include the cities of Libreville, Conakry, Dakar, and Abidjan. Find these on a map and try to make sure no other countries take these areas.
The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. Great Britain is most concerned about maintaining control of the Suez Canal (it has been under their control since 1875) and the surrounding territory. The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Red, and Arabian Seas providing important shipping routes. Great Britain has expanded its control around the canal, throughout Egypt and south into the Sahara to create a buffer zone against French expansion. Great Britain desires holdings from the Cape (southern tip of Africa) to Cairo. British colonial outposts exist in west Africa in the cities of Lagos, Freetown, and Banjul. Great Britain is also in conflict with the Dutch for control of the Cape of Africa. The biggest concerns for Britain are keeping colonial outposts, land from the Suez Canal south, and land from the Cape north.
The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. Led by King Leopold, the Belgians want access to the mineral and rubber resources of the interior tropical rainforest in the Congo River basin. The Belgians are also interested in the ivory trade (elephant tusks). Italy The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. Italy desires the Horn of Africa (area that is surrounded by the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean) and land in northern Africa nearest Italy. Portugal The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. Portugal has the oldest colonial outposts on the continent: a small post on the west coast near Bissau, a larger portion on the southwest coast, and the southeast coast. Netherlands/Dutch The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. The Dutch have a long history in the Cape region of Africa dating back to the 1600s. The Dutch are presently struggling for control of the area against the British. You want to fight against the British for some control of this area. If you can win best out of three in the game of rock, paper, scissors you may have some small pieces of this area.
The 1884 Berlin Conference to partition Africa has been called by the German Chancellor, Otto Von Bismark. You are hosting the conference in your capital city. The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. Germany has some control of coastal southwestern Africa and coastal east Africa just south of the equator and some control over a portion of western Africa near the equator by Douala. Germany desires to maintain control of these areas. Spain The goal of the conference is to negotiate and create a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. The European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. The Spanish want to maintain a presence on the north western coast of Africa. However, the wars for independence in Latin America beginning in the 1820s have left the empire with little monetary funds. Berlin Conference Simulation 1. What country(ies) do you represent? 2. What part(s) of Africa do you want? Why? What resources are there? Draw in the areas you hope to acquire on map 1 below. 3. Create a sketch of your group’s division of Africa on map 2. What part(s) of Africa did you end up getting after the simulation? How do they compare to the parts you wanted? 4. Who was not represented at the conference? Why? 5. What challenges do you think this conference and these new boundaries created for the indigenous people of Africa? Below create a map of the actual colonial boundaries of Africa using pg. 99 in your textbook. (The borders do not exactly match the map below, but do the best you can.) How does this map compare to your group’s map? Directory: file -> fetch fetch -> 11 th Lit Semester 1 Final Study Guide!!! fetch -> Industrial Revolution Inventors fetch -> Analysis for Galveston Hurricane of 1900 fetch -> The Illuminators (Team 2) 1900 Galveston Hurricane Cycle a team Assignment fetch -> Team csi-utb ruth Reyes Jose Ferrer fetch -> Galveston Hurricane of 1900 Cycle a-teacher as a Problem Solver fetch -> Is Climate Change Starting a New Dust Bowl? Cycle A fetch -> What makes a storm a hurricane fetch -> The 1950s were the "Happy Days" because it was a time of economic prosperity, technology development, new entertainment, new fashion and family growth. The 1950s was a great time fetch -> Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age Download 11.47 Kb. Share with your friends:
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