A term used to refer to land seized during the period of European imperialism in Africa

This European leader led the Berlin Conference.

This term refers to the notion that some races are inherently superior to others and thus are more successful.

Factories in Europe needed these in order to make manufactured goods.

This type of rule used Europeans administrators to run the colony.

This Belgian monarch oversaw the brutal colonization of the Congo

This term refers to the notion that there are biological differences based on a person's race.

This event in Europe caused Europeans to seek new markets for their goods in Africa.

Britain employed this type of imperialistic rule in most of its African colonies

This person wrote a poem to identify and justify the burden that Westerners had in civilizing “savage” peoples

The acquisition and exploitation of a territory by a foreign power for its own political and economic benefit.

The year for the Berlin Conference.

This policy was based on the idea that in time, the local populations would adopt the colonizers’ culture and become more like them.

The concept of scientific racism was based on this man’s work establishing biological theories about species survival.

A practice of exerting cultural, economic, or political influence over other societies

This belief about the people in Africa was foundational to all countries' motives to colonize.

Private companies that had permission to conduct economic activities in a territory.

This African leader met Belgian representatives on the Congo River and his account is one of the few written sources from the Congolese perspective.

The belief that colonization is necessary because colonial subjects do not know what is best for themselves and cannot rule themselves.

Belgium sought this resource and employed a forced labor system to extract it.