How could this document be used to explain a driving force behind european imperialism in africa

The great European colonization force is reinforced bay the Berlin Conference.

Explanation:

    The Sharing of Africa is the name by which the division of the African continent became known during the nineteenth century and ended with the Berlin Conference (1884-1885).

    With the economic growth of England, France, the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire, these countries wanted to advance Africa in search of raw materials for their industries.

    Countries like Portugal had been on the continent since the 16th century. They used Africa as a supplier of slave labor, in a lucrative trade in which England, Spain, France, and Denmark participated.

    European expansion to the African continent in the nineteenth century was justified by public opinion as the need to “civilize” this territory.

    In the nineteenth century, there was a belief in the superiority of races and civilizations. Theories such as Auguste Comte's Positivism and Social Darwinism corroborated this idea.

    Thus, it was necessary to make the "backward" Africans, by European standards, civilized.