A political cartoon published in the French newspaper, called China the cake of kings and emperors, shows Queen Elizabeth and Otto Von Bismarck bickering while both holding knives in their hands over a map of Africa. They are arguing or fighting over the division of Africa because of the natural resources found in Africa(Doc 4).The purpose of this document is to portray the division of Africa so it makes sense that the French newspaper would communicate the division of Africa in this way because it shows how tyrant and unfair the division was and it was only up to the imperialist leaders and how they just wanted the economic profits of the natural resources.This supports the argument that the economic motivations are also because of Africa’s resources. As an additional piece of evidence that supports this argument is the European success in the Congo from harvesting rubber in trees that was used for tires in cars/automobiles. The cars are a result of the Industrial