HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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He sold guns to Belgium
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He financed a trading company
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He persuaded African chiefs to sign treaties
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He trained European troops on how to seize territories
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did Henry Morton Stanley legitimize Leopold’s take over of the Congo? Henry Morton Stanley get signatures from local chiefs to legitimize Leopold take over the Congo.
Detailed explanation-2: -Empire for King Leopold He employed Stanley to claim land in the Congo for him. Stanley worked to set up Belgian bases and build roads there from 1879-1884. Stanley’s work showed that there was money to be made in the Congo.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first European to explore the Congo River from Central Africa to the Atlantic Ocean was Henry Morton Stanley. He traveled the great river for 2, 000 miles (3, 200 kilometers) from Nyangwe, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to its mouth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Leopold instructed Stanley, under the guise of doing scientific explorations and combating slavery, to secretly establish monopoly control over the rich Congo ivory trade. To do this, Stanley had to get local clan chiefs to sign treaties turning over their lands and the labor of their people to Leopold.