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Elina [12.6K]
2 years ago
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What was King Leopold hoping to accomplish in the Congo River Basin?​​

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BARSIC [14]2 years ago
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In 1876, Belgium's King Leopold II announced his intent to fund an exploration of the Congo region, and in 1879 Leopold sent Sir Henry Morton Stanley to the area. In the same year, the French began building a railway east from Dakar, hoping to tap potentially huge Sahelian markets.

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