ImperialismIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Europe was expanding its borders. In an effort to grow their economy and culture, the European superpowers began to seek new terrain. Africa was an easy target; it was not politically safe and was not modernized. Furthermore, it had reliable soil that would allow Europe to produce cash crops. European nations began pouring into Africa, called the Scramble for Africa. Europe soon took control of Africa, taking raw materials and destroying African culture. Imperialism is responsible for the exploitation of people and materials, the destruction of traditional culture, and the unnatural division of the land, which causes a series of problems in the future. There is no doubt that imperialism has negatively affected the world. The European superpowers exploited Africans and their raw materials. In the 19th century, Europe began to industrialize. The new European industry required raw materials. Africa is relatively close and has the resources it needs. In 1882, “The British then took control of the government as a whole and forcibly reshaped the Egyptian economy from a system based on multiple crops that maintained the country's self-sufficiency to one that emphasized the production of a few crops.” The British invasion of Egypt is the perfect example of the exploitation of raw materials. Before taking power, the Egyptians had crops that would keep them self-sufficient. When the British forcibly changed the economy and agriculture, the Egyptians were no longer self-sufficient. The English just wanted the land and were already implementing agricultural infrastructure to grow cash crops for Europe. Cash crop production was primarily focused on “cotton, raw silk, wheat......half of paper......Africans for taxes, making them work on colonial projects and this diminished self-sufficient families. Furthermore, the unnatural division of the lands caused many problems. Different tribes and ethnic groups lived separately for hundreds of years. When the colonies arrived, they imposed new laws that forced the different tribes to live close together; war was inevitable. Colonies that forced different tribes and ethnic groups to coexist would cost Africans around 800,000 human lives, in Rwanda alone. All in all, European imperialism brought no benefit to the exploited country. In conclusion, European imperialism in Africa caused many problems and overall had a negative impact on African culture, there is no doubt that any type of imperialism was positive, because it always boiled down to the exploitation of one country by another..