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Choose the best explanation of the title, "Scramble for Africa."

-Tribal (cultural) lands and borders were being changed by the indigenous people.
-Tribes that fought each other were attempting to gain control of more land.
-European colonists were claiming land hoping to outdo their neighboring European competitors.
-Languages and dialects were becoming mixed while control of lands was changing.

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the answer would be C european colonists were claiming land hoping to outdo neighboring competiteors 
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The best explanation for the Scramble for Africa was that European colonists were claiming land hoping to outdo their neighboring European competitors.

The Scramble for Africa was the invasion, territorial division, colonization and the annexation of African territories during the period of the New Imperialism, between the decade of 1880 and the beginning of the First World War, which involved France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy , Portugal, Belgium and Spain, justified in different claims of these countries.

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