The Berlin Conference was the destruction of Africa in more than one sense: the colonial powers divided the countries of the African continent; When independence progressively returned to Africa in the second half of the 20th century, the continent had such a degree of political, social and cultural fragmentation that it has not yet been able to rise.
At the time of the conference, 80% of Africa remained under local control. What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into fifty irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed on the thousand cultures and indigenous regions that existed. The new countries lacked cohesion, divided coherent groups of people and merged disparate groups that did not really get along.
<span>Spain and Portugal were bound by the Treaty of Tordesillas, so the Spanish had to sail westward and travel through the Americas to get to the Pacific and finally the Philippines. It is also their only direct access -- meaning without going through intermediaries -- to the east Indies, as all other parts were to be the domain of the Portuguese.
Further, as Spain faced increasing competition from their rivals the English, Dutch, French in the Atlantic world, their Pacific route was inaccessible to these rivals until much later.</span>
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engaged in trade with them. They hoped to transform the tribes people into civilized Christians through their daily contacts
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