The Berlin Conference’s General Act set rules for European claims and trade in Africa without African political participation. It did not itself draw every later border, but it legitimized imperial competition and accelerated colonial partition, resource extraction, and resistance that would shape the war’s African theatres.
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Which long-term process did the Berlin Conference formalize?
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The 1884–85 conference set rules among European powers without African representation and accelerated colonial partition.
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