What did european countries do starting in the mid-1800 to acquire more natural resources

in the late 1800s, the african continent had much to offer. seeing this, many european countries started to colonize, or settle, africa. this rush to take over africa was known as the “scramble for africa”. with so many european countries interested in africa and in order to prevent a war between them, the europeans decided to meet and “fairly” divide up the african continent. the result was the berlin conference, a series of meetings from 1884-1885 in berlin, germany, held by european nations such as england, france, belgium, germany, and denmark. africa’s rulers did not attend. the european nations discussed africa’s land and how they wanted it to be divided. ten percent (10%) of africa was in european hands going into the meeting. by the end of the meeting, europeans owned most of africa.