German+East+Africa+(Tanzania

= = =              German East Africa  = =            =  Image Credit. Wikipedia.com  (German East Africa in red)  Germany's colony in East Africa, included what is now Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania. It began during the 1880s and ended during World War I, when the area was taken over by the British. It was about 384,170 square miles, about three times the size of re-united Germany today.The colony’s story began with Carl Peters, an adventurer who had signed some treaties with the native chiefs of the midland across from