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Economic: Congo was a top country after it sold a lot of quantities of rubber, also Europe had its

industrial revolution so it had a lot of money to buy more and more rubber from congo.

Social: After the greed of the Belgians over many factors and one of them was rubber, they took over
Congo and started applying forced labor, and who won't meet the rubber quota they would
kill him or cut his hand. There was about 20 million deaths in total.

Political: Belgium took over Congo and it stopped being a free state, also there was a lot of genocide
in Congo after Belgium took over.

Environmental: They used to get rubber from trees so after finishing harvesting it they used to cut
the tree because there was no use to it.

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