Based on my knowledge, the scramble for Africa was largely because the industrial revolution was springing up all over the world in largely European countries and they were at a point where resources were running out. Gold and other valuable metals were discovered in Africa as well as timber. The surplus of resources in Africa made it very valuable to these industrial countries so they all made a huge "scramble" to Africa. Also, the idea of merchantilism, the idea that the amount of land a country owned defined its wealth, was still very popular so these countries wanted to make a huge land grab.
This is known as Cash Crops
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Explanation:
This is because iron is more reactive than copper in the metal reactivity series. The more reactive an element is, the harder it is to extract it from their ore. ... On the other hand, we just need to hear copper oxide in the air in order to extract copper metal.
The reason for the southern economic worth
being so much higher was that <span>they developed a plantation system. And the plantation system succeeded
due to headright.
Headright means the land given to the settlers to grow crops and this became
famous in colonial era where people were given from one acre to one thousand
acres for plantation. This resulted in a booming system of plantation.</span>
