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With a POD no earlier than 1820, how can you get 1 or more of the following countries to acquire (by conquest, treaty, or purchase) new territories during the Scramble for Africa (or an alternate scramble occurring some time in the 1870s-1910s)?

Colonial empires or potential colonial empires:
  • Netherlands
  • Brazil
  • Sweden-Norway
  • Argentina
  • Mexico
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Montenegro
  • Greece
  • Empire of Japan
  • Boer states (after they are already surrounded by Britain)
  • Liberia or United States
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Hannover
  • Bremen
  • Lübeck
  • Denmark
  • Papal States
  • Two Sicilies
Africa-based empires
  • Sultanate of Zanzibar
  • A new empire founded by the Mahdist movement
  • A new empire founded by Tippu Tip
  • Kingdom of Kaffa
  • Merina Kingdom
  • Morocco
  • Muhammad Ali Dynasty Egypt
  • Sokoto Caliphate
  • Tripolitania
  • Dahomey
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