Belgium in africa

    • [DOC File]In the 19th Century, Europeans were drawn to Africa’s ...

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      France took much of western Africa, from Mauritania to Chad (French West Africa) and Gabon and the Republic of Congo (French Equatorial Africa). Belgium and King Leopold II controlled the Democratic Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo). Portugal took Mozambique in the east and Angola in the west.

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    • [DOC File]The Congo: From Leopold to Lumumba

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      The Berlin West Africa Conference, also known as the Berlin Conference, was held from November 15, 1884 to January 20, 1885. The great European powers—France, Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, and Spain—and the United States met in Berlin, Germany to divide the African continent into colonial holdings.

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    • Belgian Congo | History & Facts | Britannica

      Whitaker R. Birt. Engr. 297B. Prof. Bruce Lusignan Introduction. This is a tale of horror and tragedy in the Congo, beginning with the brutal and exploitative regime of King Leopold II of Belgium, and culminating with the downfall of one of Africa’s most influential figures, Patrice Lumumba.

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    • [DOC File]The Scramble for Africa

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      Explored Africa in search of Livingstone. Berlin Conference (1884-1885) Meeting of 14 European nations to lay down rules for the division of Africa. Called for by Portugal, but organized by Germany. Agreed that any European country could claim land in Africa by notifying other nations. Led to a period of heightened colonial activity in Africa.

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    • [DOC File]Map of the Partition of Africa by European Countries

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      By the early 1880s, other countries were closing off parts of Africa... Belgium had been given the Congo as the private preserve of its. humanitarian king, Leopold. Germany was making claims in eastern Africa. Italy was looking to Tunisia, Libya, and Ethiopia. The old world of trade seemed to be vanishing.

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    • [DOC File]IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA - Commack Schools

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      In 1908, under increasing international pressure, Leopold gave up his one-man show in the Congo and the colony was annexed by Belgium. Leopold did not go away empty-handed, of course. Belgium provided Leopold 50 million francs as compensation--and the money was to be taken from the Congo.

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