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Who was king Leopold?
King Leopold the II, was the king of Belgium and responsible for the deaths of many in the Belgium Congo.
Who enslaved the people of Congo?
King Leopold II
Who was the king of Belgium who went into the Congo?
He was Leopold II.
What was the main result of the Berlin conference?
King Leopold of Belgium became the monarch of the Congo Free State.
What was the name of King Leopold's colony in Africa?
Congo Free State
Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo?
Henry Stanley
Who was there and who was not at the Berlin conference?
King Leopold of Belgium became the monarch of the Congo Free State.
What were the results of the Berlin conferences?
King Leopold of Belgium became the monarch of the Congo Free State.
Who the king of Belgium saw the Congo as an opportunity for Belgium to acquire its first colony?
Leopold II
What resulted of the Berlin conference?
King Leopold of Belgium became the monarch of the Congo Free State.
What colony did King Leopold II establish in Africa?
Modern day Zaire.
How much money did King Leopold make from the Congo?
King Leopold II was considered by the white people of his day as an effective and influential ruler. As king of Belgium, he led the colonization of the then-Belgian Congo, which provided great wealth to his country, all derived from the natural resources which the Congo had in abundance. But Africans, as well as modern students of colonialism, do not hold such a positive view of King Leopold. The modern view is that he was a harsh and brutal dictator, who plundered the mineral wealth of the Congo, provided little infrastructure or education for the Congolese people, and only cared about the riches the Congo could deliver to Belgium, while relegating the African citizenry to lives of extreme poverty and servitude. An excellent study of what King Leopold did can be found in the 1998 book "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild.
