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Why was king leopold ii interested in colonizing africa
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Why was king leopold ii interested in colonizing africa

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Africa held valuable resources such as ivory, and rubber. He basically wanted to exploit all of central Africa, and make Lots of money with new african slaves
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Mostly because of slavery since back then the Africans where hardworking and sadly he wanted to control them.
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