COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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To bring out of savage, uneducated, or rude state
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Reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes
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Using or giving in great amounts
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A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1879 and 1882, Stanley signed treaties with local chiefs of the Congo River valley. The treaties gave King Leopold II of Belgium control of these lands. Leopold claimed that his primary motive in establishing the colony was to abolish the slave trade and promote Christianity.
Detailed explanation-2: -This created an insatiable demand for rubber, and Leopold’s colony, with its great equatorial rainforests full of wild rubber, was ripe for plundering. Leopold devised a system of terror in which entire Congolese villages were forced to harvest rubber or face death by their Belgian overseers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Colonization of the Congo began in the late 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium, frustrated by his nation’s lack of international power and prestige, tried to persuade the Belgian government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexplored Congo Basin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early 20th century, and Leopold was forced by the Belgian government to relinquish control of the colony to the civil administration in 1908.