Time-lapse map of the colonization of Africa

Maps help me learn. Visualizing historical processes with geographic representations and symbols can help tell different stories and facilitate remembering details about those new stories.Visualizing the attempts at total geopolitical, cultural, and economic colonization of Africa, beginning in the middle of the 15th century as Arab trading of gold, ivory, and enslaved people transitioned as European nations turned from the "far" East to the south toward Africa, and west across the oceans of the round earth. — Read the rest