Essential question for the Imperialism unit:  What are the long term effects of European imperialism upon the continent of Africa? Directions: Using class lectures, textbook information and the movie Hotel Rwanda, please answer the essential question above.
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the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire