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belgian congo imperialism
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Livingston and Stanley
Livingston had travled in Africa on a journey to spread christianity. Stanley was hired by King lepold 2 to find him and get lands for Belgium. -
After stanley finds Livingston
After Stanley found Livingston King Leopold wanted more land. Stanley then started to gain control of more land near the belgian congo. He also began to make more maps for the belgian congo -
Europe begans to take over Africa
All of the countries in Europe wanted to get there own colonys in Africa. Europe was much more advanced and had superior weapones. The congo was taken over ny belgian. -
King leopold not being fair
King leopold was being very cruel and unfair to the people in the belgian congo. If they did not work hard enough they would be punished and it was unfair how he just jumped in and started being unfair to them. -
King is not in charge of belgian congo anymore
The people of Belgian did not like how he was extremely cruel so they made him no longer in charge. The belgian congo then began to expand. -
republic of the congo
Fighting began in the congo and they eventually began to break away from belgiam controlling them. They begant to have presidents and elections as soon more fighting would start. -
independince is a bad thing for the congo
After they became indipendint a lot of fighting and killing was going on. The people were arguing on who should be running the country and how it should be runned.
