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Country: Belgium
Colonies: In Africa

What colonies did they have in that area of the world?

- Belgian Congo, Republic of Rwanda

What type of rule did they use?

- Belgium use constitutional monarchy to gover
every colony
- Constitutional Monarchy: it is a government system
in which a country is ruled by a king or queen but
their power is limited due to the fact that the
king or the queen will listen and act after the
politician/ government advice.

What resources did they take from the colony?

- From Congo: rubber, copper, gold, cocoa bean,
cotton, coffee bean.
- From Rwanda: potatoes.

Was 'white man's burden" a factor in colonization?

- No, because “In Belgium, it was as if black people
did not exist,” says Womba Konga so it shows that
Belgium didn’t care about black people.

Was there any competition with other powers over the

colony?
- Congo: Portugal
- Rwanda: no
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What were the political, economic and religious reasons

for colonization?
- The Congo during the colonial period focuses on
the metropole’s finances and the colonial economy,
including colonial companies. It constitutes a
massive resource for further research. It is much
less valuable as a narrative or analytical history
of colonial finance, political economy, or
administration. Belgium gets the resources from
the colonies.

Was slavery a part of the colony?

- Yes, they were having slave trading. They tend to
collect more of the homeless people, criminals and
debtors. And sell them to the portugues, the
portugues also distribute and sell the slave to
other european country and also to the American.

How did “social Darwinism” legitimize colonization?

- Congo which was rich in the rubber-producing trees
face a dark history in the rule of Leopold who
hired many of the natives as unpaid labors and his
brutal army tortured and murdered the natives to
reduce Congo’s population to half, named by the
term “Rubber Terror” in African history

What was the effect of colonization on the population

of the colony?
- At the time when king Leopold II ruled Congo, he
massacred 10 million of th eAfican in congo. By
cutting off their hand, flogging them, starving
them and burning their house when they were
inside.
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How does having been a colony still affect the modern

country today?
- Today, as then, little to none of the horrors are
anywhere in sight in Belgium, with collective
apathy and a stagnant education system preventing
the country from confronting its role in Congo,
more than a century in the past.