The berlin conference of 1885 is said to have set off a “scramble for africa.” that means that europeans rushed to set up colonies in africa. fought each other on african soil before leaving the continent. abandoned plans for establishing african colonies. grew interested in african music and art forms.

what the first or next guy says

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.

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