The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railway from Cape Town to Cairo. Under British control or influence, 1914
This map shows the chain of colonies from the Cape to Cairo through which the railroad would run. From 1916, Tanganyika Territory was added filling in the gap.Overview of routes discussed. Not all links displayed were finished.Boarding Cape to Cairo Railway in the Belgian Congo, c. 1900-1915.Crossing at Victoria Falls
The Cape to Cairo Railway is an uncompleted project to cross Africa from south to north by rail. This plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western colonial rule, largely under the vision of Cecil Rhodes, in the attempt to connect adjacent African possessions of the British Empire through a continuous line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. While most sections of the Cape to Cairo railway are in operation, a major part is missing between northern Sudan and Uganda.
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b. a world history textbook's account publish in 2014
Explanation:
the other resources would most likely contain the most biased information
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The geographic feature of Mesopotamia that led to the Sumerians being easily taken over was the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that made it easy for their enemies to navigate and invade them.
Sumeria was the oldest civilization known to man. Sumerians settled in the middle of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East region. There, they developed agriculture techniques and learn how to use the flood of the rivers to grow crops in that fertile soil. That is how they prosper for some time until their enemies could access their city-states navigating through both rivers.
Answer: The Industrial Revolution sparked a greater need for cheap raw materials
Explanation:
The Industrial Revolution was the improvement of production processes in Europe such that goods were being produced way more efficiently than before. This meant that industrial goods could be mass produced in higher quantities.
To produce manufactured goods however requires raw materials which was lacking in Europe at the time so they sought to get these materials from other places and cheaply if they could. They therefore colonized areas rich in raw materials such as Africa to get these materials at low low prices.
