Refection - Scramble of Africa

When we were playing scramble of Africa, We got the France for countries. Our goal was to negotiate and created a process for the partition of Africa into European colonies or spheres of influence. But also European powers are interested in gaining access to raw materials and resources for their industrialization. In this case France was interested in gaining petroleum, iron and zinc and also desires colonies in order to develop a diamond industry to rival Belgium. France also wishes to slow down or stop thee expansion of the British Empire. At the beginning of the game, my group choose place for southern and southern east to build the first colonies, because there were lot of resources and mineral that France wanted. After the first round we kept add land of southern and southern east Africa , 50 percent for each. There was some factor we considered when we add our territory, we consider if neighbor around us might attack our land. I think green(France) won the game because they got the most of the land of Africa. Yellow(Portugal) lost the game because they got the least land they needed from Africa. During this game I got confused that our goal is to claim most of the places in Africa or gain more products they interested in.