The role of pawnbrokers was making loans in exchange for property
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Leopold II, French in full Léopold-Louis-Philippe-Marie-Victor, Dutch in full Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor, (born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belgium—died December 17, 1909, Laeken), king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Keen on establishing Belgium as an imperial power, he led the first European efforts to develop the Congo River basin, making possible the formation in 1885 of the Congo Free State, annexed in 1908 as the Belgian Congo and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although he played a significant role in the development of the modern Belgian state, he was also responsible for widespread atrocities committed under his rule against his colonial subjects.
In the late nineteenth century, the US Army clashed with Native Americans, and ... they increasingly came into violent conflict with Native American Indians over ... especially after the discovery of gold in western territories sparked the Gold Rush. ... series of conflicts known as the Sioux Wars, which lasted from 1854 to 1890
