Several factors enabled European corporations to accumulate huge profits from their enterprises between 1885 and 1914. These events include the Berlin Congress laying ground rules to annex Africa, the economic depression in Europe that lasted from 1873 until 1898, and the expansion of the transport networks linked to Europe.

In 1884 the Berlin Congress laid the ground rules to annex land in Africa is seen as the event that kicked of the "Scramble for Africa." A few countries in Europe started to claim grounds in Africa and thus a meeting of the European nations interested in Africa had an international conference. They discussed grievances about land in Africa and also future conduct among each other to avoid wars. Some of these countries, Britain and Germany, started to divide up the land south of the Congo

The last factor is a boom in the transport networks. These networks consisted of huge railway systems and also the overseas transportation routes. Almost any region in the world could be linked to the modern industries. The expansion of the railway in Africa reached out to farming areas across the continent. White farmers were now given the chance to diversify their crops for market. Goods were shipped from the mines to be processed distances away. The railways transported police, militias, and colonists. Armies were moved quickly as well. Police and armies had to be handy to put down any African attempts or uprisings for improved pay and conditions.

. The majority of all the fertile land in Africa was taken up ad claimed by one of the powerful countries in Europe. Some of the land didn't come easy. Blood shed wasn't an uncommon thing in "the Scramble for Africa." In the end only 3 great powers controlled the bigger share of Africa. Britain, Ger

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