Scramble For Africa

Our group for Scramble for Africa was the country Germany. Our strategy to claim the land was to claim all of the coast. Of the factors we considered were access to the water from the coast because if we wanted gold we could go to find some, but on the way back if someone else has the coast they're obviously are not going to give access. Without the coast, you wont be able to get the gold back to your country to sell it.

Id say Great Britain won because they had land inside Africa with minerals and gold and they had a way to bring it back home to sell it because they had land on the coast as well. The Germans were the next closest because they had coast and inner land, but not as much as Great Britain had. France got to much land, but too little coast. Portugal had all land and no coast. The Dutch had some coast but no way to get to the inner land with resources. Belgium had very little resources but no coast. Lastly, Spain had nothing at all, they had no resourceful land and had no coast.

Spain lost the Scramble for Africa because they had no resourceful land and they had no coast to get to the land (even if it was resourceful). Belgium should have lost because they had the most least amount of land but the were resourceful. Portugal also should have lost because they had lots of resourceful land but absolutely no way to get to them without confronting the countries that took over the coast.