1. Welcome! Folders – handbook, dividers, wallets Books Expectations
Attendance and punctuality
Homework and independent work
Briefly go through handbook using slide.

2. AS Level - 50% of A level. May Exams 2014
Edexcel (GCE from 2008)
AS Level - 50% of A level. May Exams 2014
British History - (Sources, 50% AS level, 25% total A level)
Scramble for Africa and Decolonisation of Africa (Knowledge, 50% AS level, 25% total A level)
A level – 50% of A level. June Exam 2015
Nazi Germany (Knowledge and Sources, 30% of A level)
Coursework on Ireland in the 19th C (Knowledge and Sources, 20% of A level)
Briefly go through handbook using slide.

3. What’s the difference between these two pictures
What’s the difference between these two pictures? Can you explain this difference?

4. What was the world like in the 19th C
What was the world like in the 19th C? How could this have contributed to the colonisation of Africa?

5. Why was it Africa that was rapidly colonised in the 19th C
Why was it Africa that was rapidly colonised in the 19th C? Aim – to gain a working knowledge of African geography and key events and to begin to explain why Africa was colonised
Question – ‘Why was it Africa that was chosen for rapid colonisation in the 19th C?’
Themes – Motives, periphery and metropole
Content – Background, Livingstone, Attitudes in Britain
In 1870 only 10% of Africa was under European control. By % of Africa was under European control.
On your post-its…
Standard – Why did the Europeans want to colonise Africa?
Super – Why did it happen so rapidly?

6. Why was it Africa that was rapidly colonised in the 19th C
Why was it Africa that was rapidly colonised in the 19th C? Aim – to gain a working knowledge of African geography and key events and to begin to explain why Africa was colonised
North Africa
East Africa
West Africa
Southern Africa
Using your maps and those at the beginning of your book, answer these questions about your area of Africa.
What countries are in it?
What is this area of Africa like?
Why may it be attractive to Europeans?

7. What was Africa like before it was colonised?
Hugh Trevor-Roper stated in the 1960s that the study of pre-colonial African History was studying ‘the unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes’.
Think-Pair-Share
Why did Trevor-Roper say this?
Do you agree with him?
Ancient Egyptians
Mali Empire (11th-13th C)
Kingdom of Zimbabwe (11th-14th C)
Slavery

8. Why was it Africa that was chosen for rapid colonisation in the 19th C
Why was it Africa that was chosen for rapid colonisation in the 19th C? Aim – to gain a working knowledge of African geography and key events and to begin to explain why Africa was colonised
Why did the Europeans want to colonise Africa?
Use the pictures to add to your brainstorm. Remember to include facts!
Can you link any further evidence from the cards?
Ext. To what extent do the pieces of evidence support a consistent explanation for British Imperialism in the late 19th century?
Quiz on African geography, History and why Europeans wanted to colonise it.

9. The Age of Empire

10. Industrialisation

11. Hwk – due to Thursday
Read pp. 3-6, of Chamberlain and make notes ready to answer the questions on Thursday
What was Africa like when it was colonised?
Was it Africa’s fate to be colonised by Europe?
How do we take notes?