Leopold von Ranke

The history of Africa has been engulfed with exploitation, tragedy, and the slaughter of millions of people across its rich soil. The Congo, as did many other countries, struggled towards independence to break from the stronghold of the Europeans during colonization. With great courage, Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expressed his discontent for the trickery taking place against his people. Although his position in leadership was brief, his…

King Leopold the Second of Belgium villain King Leopold || of Belgium had never been a very good man. Neither during or after his “reign” of the Congo, the reign that Belgium had to forcibly end after 23 years of empowerment. He was a tyrant who committed a mass genocide even larger than Adolf Hitler’s control of Germany in 1934,enslaving an entire country and hiding it by stating that the transactions he was making were “scientific”. He wanted to increase his personal wealth, and he’d do…

The scramble for Africa, which lasted from 1876 to 1914, was a brutal imperialistic act. The conquest was led by a man named King Leopold ll. He was born in 1835, and was made king in 1865. Leopold gained territory as the Congo Free State. Great Britain wanted to gain territory, and ended up taking control of a big part of the African continent. The French took control of a lot of Africa too. The Germans also took control of parts of Africa. They all fought, and did all that they could do to…

King Leopold took full advantage of this possibility, buying the Congo for himself, claiming he was leading a humanitarian effort for the peoples of the Congo. However, he was instead exploiting the natives of the Congo to gain wealth, forcing the Congolese to work for him collecting rubber for manufacturing uses. The Congo’s resources were a great asset to King Leopold, and in his effort to collect the wealth of the Congo, the native…

country for himself, not his country, but himself. This was such the case of King Leopold II of Belgium, which started the European Scramble for Africa. The European powers would go on to dominate the continent for years to come, and leave debilitating effects on the continent that still last to today. The time before 1884, European powers colonized only 10% of the African continent. However, this all changed after King Leopold II of Belgium annexed the Congo as his own estate. This led to the…

Page 1 Source five states that Leopold put hospitals into effect at every important point in the region. He produced churches, schools, and laboratories, and organized government buildings. He cleared non-providing forests with land to produce rubber, cocoa, coffee, and other food-providing trees, vines, and crops. The locals would have noticed Leopold 's reforms in ways suggested in the picture documents. Railways, hospitals, and new currency were just some of Leopold’s reforms in order to…

One of the main reasons for Western Imperialism was the need for more raw materials to fuel industrialization in europe. King Leopold II gained control of the Congo for Belgium. In the Congo, the people were exploited for the personal gain of Leopold II. In one of the most famous incidences, the people of the Congo river basin were essentially forced into slavery, harvesting rubber. If they refused to do so, the hands of the workers were…

powers justified their use as an inherent aspect of colonization. Foreign powers used brute force as a means to maintain and expand control over their realm. King Leopold II of Belgium wanted to expand his own power and secure resources by having Belgium become an empire nation like other European countries. To recognize this goal Leopold created the Congo Free State (CFS) in what is presently the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While all colonial empires did exercise violence against native…

countries like Britain, Germany, France, Portugal, and lastly Belgian, rushed to Africa to claim land. Although many countries exploited the African lands by taking raw materials—ivory, gold, rubber, and other minerals—historians have criticized King Leopold of Belgian…

possess holdings in the continent. The European powers obtained colonies throughout Africa for social and religious reasons but mainly for economic ones. Leopold II of Belgium under the guise of African advancement and free trade, obtained the Congo secretly to enrich himself on the backs of the native population. Unrestricted in his power, Leopold II ruled the Congo with an iron fist extracting as much profit from the region as possible at the expense of the Congolese and their…