Lost In Beauty-

Monday, March 19, 2007

HELLOS.

today was a tiring day. woke up at freakin 5 am and couldn't go back to sleep. so i got up and had breakfast. then had to put in some maths revision before school. got tests on thursday and friday.
first up, had science in the morning. it was okaay i guess. test coming up next monday.
then had....pc, morning tea, then sose. it was pretty interesting i guess. coz mrs van rooyen pasted up like posters on the walls that she made to show us the four corners of the globe that the britains conquered and stuff. it would have been a great lesson if i wasn't dropping off every few minutes or so.
then had IPT. mr T gave out like 5 fridays in one lesson. hahaha. it's daniels SECOND FRIDAY!!! hahahaha. ouch. that's not gonna look good on his record. and poor sarah got one as well. hahaha.
then had lunch then english but ms furness wasnt here today so we had some wierd teacher and we had to watch some boring video on batavia and stuff like that. but we also had to go home and research gary crew. that of which i will do later. haha. now gonna type out some sose notes that i have to learn by next lesson. u guys don't have to read it la. i'm being a nerd.

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
at the end of the 18th century colonialism seemed to have become a thing of the past. Britain had lost its thirteen colonies in america. spain and Portugal had lost most of South American and Holland was having difficulties holding onto the east indies. a hundred years later (19th century) however, a second wave of colonisation took place. Within twenty years, from 1800 to 1900, every corner of the Earth, from the highes mountains in the Himalayas to the most remote Pacific island and Antarctica, came to be claimed by one or other European power. Africa saw the most dramatic colonisation. it was divided up as if it had been a cake split between greedy european leaders. This was called the scramble for Africa
historians still debate the reasons for this New Imperialism and find it difficult to agree on any single cause. It seems that the Scramble for Africa began for strategic reasons. after the Congress of Vienna, britain acquired the Cape Colony in South Africa. it was an important port on the sea route to India.
in 1867, the Suez Canal was built across Egyptian territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Steamships could now go to and from India without passing round the southern tip of Africa(the Cape) The egyptian government became hopelessly unstable, however, and reluctantly in 1882, Britain took over the administration of the country. This began the Scramble for Africa.

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