3.2.1 Summary

3 Things I Learned:

• Assimilation was the idea that over time local populations would become absorbed in European culture
• Louis Pasteur discovered bacteria and came up with the Germ Theory of Disease
• Ethiopia was the only African nation to successfully resist the Europeans

2 Things I Found Interesting:

• Thomas Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions
• One of Edison's first movies showed nothing but a man sneezing

1 Question I Still Have:

• Why was Ethiopia the only nation able to resist European control?