This document discusses Europe's colonization of Africa in the late 19th century. It describes how little was known about Africa's interior until explorer David Livingstone mapped regions like the Zambezi River and Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika in the 1850s. It then summarizes how European powers rushed to claim territories in central Africa between 1885-1900, with Belgium claiming the Congo under King Leopold I and France, Britain, Germany, Portugal, and Italy dividing the rest. The continent was divided into northern, central, and southern regions. Europeans were initially interested only in the slave trade but later sought Africa's natural resources like crops, minerals, and land for settlements.