The Scramble for Africa

To claim land, we used the strategy of starting from the coast line and building into the more land surface area so that we can have easy transportation and so that we can build into Africa and onto the places with natural resources toghether. Some of the factors we considered for claiming land was that the land should start from the coast line where there will be good natural resources and then go deep into the Congo area and into the Congo basin becuase the basin has alot of good resources. France won becuase from looking at the land that they claimed, you can tell that they are sticking to the coast and one side of Africa. I think staying toghether is the best strategy becuase transportation of import/export items can be sent easier when they are next to each other and also that most of their land branches out from the coast and builds into surface areas so ships can be a useful source of transportation as well. Spain lost becuase they did not have many places with good natural resources becuase some of their land went onto the Sahara which is a really dry dessert and there arn't any really good resources there. Also none of the land that they own start out from the coast and the land is extremely scattered which makes it very hard to travel. Also the fact that all of their land is surrounded by other countries makes it very hard becuase they have no access to the water to use ships as transportation.