3.2.1 Summary

Three Things I've Learned

• Industrialization led to a wider financial gap between rich, industrialized societies versus poor, non-industrialized societies.
• Great Britain occupied 2/3 of India until it gained independence in 1947
• The Berlin conference was an international conference which decided that a European nation could not claim African lands without "effective occupation."

Two Things That Interested Me

• The fact that the Great Rebellion in India was able to gain so much widespread support for the cause when they did not really have a leading figure to follow like most other revolutionary movements.
• The fact that King Leopald would have an African's hand and foot chopped off for not gathering as much rubber as his company demanded.

One Question I Still Have

• What was Europe's motivation to "civilize" the African youth?