British Empire in Africa

This resource was originally designed as a 1 hour tutorial, and so it is knowledge-rich with exam practice embedded into it.

It contains information on:

• Why Africa was an appealing destination for European Empires
• What those empires hoped to gain from Africa
• Why they thought they had the right to take other nations
• A source practice question featuring Cecil Rhodes and imperialism
• The Scramble for Africa
• Britain’s presence in Egypt and Sudan
• Evaluation/judgement question which asks the students what they feel was the most significant reason for expansion into Africa.
• How useful are Sources A and B to a historian studying attitudes to European expansion in Africa? (8 marks)

This lesson has taken images from Google and the AQA GCSE History textbook published by Oxford.