The Europeans Pushing Into Africa

The europeans began pushing into Africa because they helped Africans with guidance and useful resources. Explorers were fascinated with the African geography, they even set out a map of rivers including the Nile and the Congo. Europeans viewed Africans as children because they needed some sort of guidance. They built schools and medical clinics alongside churches. This is how they became more close to africa and how their country organized itself.

Leopold II scrambled african colonies by creating or making up treaties with them. Leopold's goal was to conquer and to make profit himself. They had these conferences among nations where they talked about these treaties. Every nation wanted power and profit and therefore conferences were made so