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What were the motives of the European colonizers for conquering most of Africa?
European colonizers wanted to represent their power by the expanding of the colonizing of new territories. The idea of new territories was for them the key for wealth, this was a way to richness by the discovery of new minerals in Africa. The need for the expandation of new routes for easier trading and traveling. The use of social Darwinism was more than a motivation on Africa’s colonialism. The theory of evolution, it is based on the theory of natural selection of Charles Darwin, where only the strongest survive, thus eliminating the weakest and subtracting the existence of the strongest or fittest. The European colonizers used this theory as an excuse for the

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