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This process’s legacy is “decentralized despotism” per Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject. (-5[1])Following this process’s “Epic School,” Ali Mazrui called it the third source of a “triple heritagne.” Peripheral crises led “informal” collaborators to drive this “climactic” process per Robinson and Gallagher’s (-5[1])book on its “official mind,” which stressed its continuity with free trade in “legitimate commerce.” (-5[1])This process was a mere “episode” per J. F. Ade Ajayi (“ah-day ah-jah-yee”) of the Ibadan (“ih-BAH-dun”) School, and it resulted from overproduction that led capitalists to seek protected markets, according to J. A. Hobson. (10[1]-5[2])Jules Ferry cited a “civilizing mission” (10[1]-5[1])to (-5[1])justify parts of this process, (10[1]-5[3])whose speed is often credited to (10[1])quinine’s breach of the “disease (10[3])barrier” (10[1])and (10[1])the (10[1])Maxim gun. For 10 points, (10[1])the start of what centerpiece of the “new imperialism” is often dated to the Berlin Conference? ■END■ (10[13])

ANSWER: Scramble for Africa [or Scramble for African territory, or partition of Africa, colonization of Africa, European conquest of Africa, African colonialism, race for Africa, acquisition of Africa, invasion of Africa, or equivalents; accept specific African countries such as Madagascar or Tunisia in place of “Africa”; prompt on new imperialism, high imperialism, late colonialism, colonization, or equivalents] (Robinson and Gallgher wrote Africa and the Victorians and “The Imperialism of Free Trade.”)
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