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What if the Scramble for Africa had gone differently?

1884 · west-africa

European powers partition almost the entire continent at a conference in Berlin.

If it had gone differently: Africa is not carved up at a table in Europe; its 20th century, and much of the world's, takes a very different shape.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

What it made possible

Later turning points that leaned on the Scramble for Africa. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

  1. 1870The first globalisation. Without it, The world economy stays a patchwork of regions; no belle-époque boom, and no 1914 shock when it unwinds.
  2. 1914The First World War. Without it, The old European empires are never shattered; the century's borders, grievances and revolutions all run another way.

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