Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) reigned as the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. He became known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture. Born in Brusselsas the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death - the longest reign of any Belgian monarch. He died without surviving male issue; the current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I.
Leopold became the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken on his own behalf. He used explorer Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim by committing the Congo Free State to improving the lives of the native inhabitants. From the beginning, however, Leopold essentially ignored these conditions. He ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal enrichment. He used great sums of the money from this exploitation for public and private construction projects in Belgium during this period. He donated the private buildings to the state before his death, to preserve them for Belgium.
Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo, initially by the collection of ivory, and - after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s - by forced labour from the natives to harvest and process rubber. Under his régime millions of the Congolese people died; modern estimates range from 1 to 15 million, with a consensus growing around 10 million. Human-rights abuses under his régime contributed significantly to these deaths. Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early 20th century, and the Belgian government ultimately forced Leopold to relinquish control of the colony to Belgian civil administration in 1908 <From wikipedia i give all credits to wikipedia> Hope it helps
You didn’t put a video but trna molecules help decode mRNA sequence into a protein and transfer that protein to the ribosomes where the dna is replicated.
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D.Divine command theory states God freely chooses what and what is wrong
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5 physiographic provinces
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The state is divided into 5 physiographic provinces, or ecoregions (Keyes et al. 1995): the Cumberland Plateau (also known as the Appalachian Plateau), the Ridge and Valley, the Blue Ridge, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain (Map 1.1).
The answer is A. <span>The 1908 Springfield riot
NAACP stands for </span><span>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization that aimed to ensure the equality of colored people in term of economic, social, educational, and political rights.
The springfield riot of 1908, was happened due to race based hatred, so the NAACP was established in order to make sure such occurrence would never happen again.</span>
