I believe that Spain, my group, struggled in the simulation. Every single one of our spots we hoped to acquire were taken before us, so we settled for surrounding one of our prospective areas. We also took an area in Northern Africa. It appeared to be above the Nile, but a group before us drew the river in the wrong place and we ended up getting a piece of the desert. Historically, Spain did not do well either, only receiving the small country of Gabon.
The winner of the countries was definitely France. This was only because of the fact that they could take a huge amount of land, as well as making sure the land was all consolidated in one area. Unlike Britain, their colonies will be easy to control, because they are also close to France. Spain and Germany were definitely losers, because they hardly got any useful land. However, Germany took tiny pieces of scattered land, and it will be impossible for them to control. Italy did well with what they could get, but essentially pissed off every other country by taking Ethiopia.
The Berlin Conference was one of the biggest destructions of culture in history. The Europeans entered Africa, and assumed the natives' culture was dumb and inferior. They never tried to embrace it, or even let it diffuse, and totally forced upon the Africans a new culture that they did not agree with.
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