Germany





= __ GERMANY- __ An Imperialistic nation who controlled several colonies in different parts of Africa during the 1800’s. The colonies that German had control of were, Togo, Cameroon, German Southwest Africa(Namibia), and German East Africa (Tanzania). __ www.google.com __ Germany had many reasons for entering Africa. One of the main reasons for Germany's imperialism of Africa was a need for raw materials. Germany needed materials for their factories. Trading with other nations was becoming very cost effective and Germany needed an easier and a cheaper way to obtain the materials they needed.  - The leaders of Germany didn't bother to think about how the imperialism would effect the colonies. Though Germany was somewhat fair to a few of the colonies they also took a lot of freedoms away from the people of the colonies. Germany used a system called direct imperialism in the colony of German East Africa(Tanzania). Direct Imperialism is when after a nation conquers an area, they control the area by sending in their own leaders. Germany sent their own people into German East Africa to control the government. When a nation does this they take away all power from the area they have conquered. Most of the time the people put in charge do not take into consideration the effect they have on the people of that area. Imperialism does have some postivie effects like making the colonies more technologically advanced, and some times fixing problems in the colonies government. Overall imperialism not only effects the nation that is colonizing an area but the people that are being colonized too. =

