Response to Berlin Conference

I thought that our groups performance was quite good. We got a number of ports with only two squares so I thought that we were overall successful with our mission in that that's what we wanted. But we did not get too many natural resources, but we did get some. And the territory that we grabbed to the south east was pretty much where the Portuguese grabbed in real life.

I think that Italy lost because of their invasion of Ethiopia. They lost this important battle after being told not to attack. Dan's group came second to last because they just took land surrounding a major port and resources and did not really do any thing. But they did take the entrance to the Nile. The next loosing group was Kim Ho's group. I say this because they took a bunch of scattered major ports and did not think about having to rule all these scattered countries. It was a nice thought about getting all the major ports but it would never been able to be ruled. Peter and Christian's group did all right. They got good resources in the middle of the country and did what they had to. I forget what Tom's group did but I suspect that it had some flaws to it compared to ours. I, being Portugal, think we won. We did not scatter our territories and yet got many major ports and some resources. We claimed a port on Madagascar and four on the main land.

In this game, like in real life, we did not think think about the natives and include them in this decision. We only looked at resources and major ports. i think that the effects of this conference were great on the African nations. It tore apart their culture and also brought a lot of violence to the Africans. it has caused hatred toward Europeans and the United States. The effects are still occuring today. The nations are corrupt and unstable. The governments are violent to their people and against other nations.