COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Shaka
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Boer
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Leopold
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George
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885-1908.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under pressure from Britain and the United States, Leopold turned over ownership of the Congo Free State to the Belgian government in 1908.
Detailed explanation-3: -On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region.
Detailed explanation-4: -Congo Free State (1885–1908) Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman. The state included the entire area of the present the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Under Leopold II, the Congo Free State became one of the most infamous international scandals of the turn of the twentieth century.