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Why were big European powers met in Berlin in 1885?

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Why were merchants from towns in Europe began to move countryside in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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Why did Charles Booth, a liverpool ship owner conduct the first social survey of low skilled workers in the East End of London in 1887?

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All the major European states were invited in Berlin Conference in 1885. The conference was organised by Otto Von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany. The European powers met to decide the scramble for Africa. The states were Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, France and Great Britain. No African was invited to this conference.

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In seventeenth and eighteenth century merchants from the towns in Europe began to move country side, supplying money to peasants and artisans persuading them to produce for an international market.

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Charles Booth, in his survey in 1887, at East end of London, found that 1 million Londoners were very poor and their average age is 29 years.