COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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was interested in the rubber trade in southern Asia.
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would not give in to the demands of European missionaries to stop forced labor.
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worked to improve the lives of the African people of the Congo.
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forced African tribes to gather wild rubber in the Congo region.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leopold’s reign over the Congo Free State, however, has become infamous for its brutality. The people of the Congo were forced to labor for valued resources, including rubber and ivory, to personally enrich Leopold. Estimates vary, but about half the Congolese population died from punishment and malnutrition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Leopold decided to “tax” his Congo subjects by requiring local chiefs to supply men to collect rubber. Leopold’s agents held the wives and children of these men as hostages until they returned with their quota of rubber.
Detailed explanation-3: -Colony built on forced labour and brutality "Civilisation” was at the core of Leopold II’s pitch to European leaders in 1885 when they sliced up and allocated territories in what became known as the Scramble for Africa.