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<em>The were created by men who became wealthy because of the gold-salt trade. They were extremely cunning, extremely lucky, or both. Their wealth gave them power turning them and their descendants into powerful lords of land and people.</em><em>Monarchy is a political system in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as head of state. It typically acts as a political-administrative organization and as a social group of nobility known as “court society.”</em><em>However, only three are currently sovereign, while the remaining are sub-national monarchies.</em>
The European powers met at Berlin in the year 1884, to regulate the colonization and trade done on Africa during the New Imperialism period. This was done with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. This meeting was known as the Berlin Conference aka Congo Conference. This meeting was organized by Otto von Bismark and has led to lost of autonomy of most African empires and countries. Europeans seek to control Africa for their growing needs on raw materials. 13 European nations and the United States participated on this conference.
