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The area of the world that was most affected by the decision making of the Berlin Conference was the <u>African continent.</u>
The Berlin Conference (1884–85) was a conference in which European nations, and the U.S., rallied to agree on divisions and rules colonization of Africa's territories, as well as to establish free trade among the colonies and a framework for negotiating future European claims in Africa.
Even though Africa was the most affected, none of the Africans leaders were invited to attend and none of the tribe's cultural and linguistic boundaries already established were taken into consideration when splitting the lands. This was so, mainly because the European believed that African people were inferior and uncivilized, didn't have industrial towns nor technology like them, and therefore Europeans considered themselves the ones who deserved to rule.
All but the first one as Germany took all the blame through the war guilt clause (article 231)
