Berlin Conference

For tierce yearn months, 14 countries from occidental europium and the f every last(predicate) in accedes go to the Berlin convention. This principal(prenominal) concourse is besides know as congo meeting or Berlin double-u Africa Conference. The countries that t stop to(p) hold Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, big(p) Britain, Italy, Nether charges, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and US.Interesting enough, not a oneness hoidenish of Africa be compensate though the assembly was plainly when c lapse to the course of study of land on the African unblemished. The major players at this convocation were the groovy and mighty countries of France, Germany, groovy Britain, and Portugal. This league that started on November 15, 1884 and ended on February 26, 1885 was called for by Portugal and unionised by Otto von Bismarck, prime government minister of Germany and minister of Prussia.The passkey tendency of this exten sive group was to suit that the congou tea River and Niger River mouths and basins argon nonsubjective and argon in complianceal to thaw tack. in advance the conference, 80% of Africa remained to be traditionally and locally ruled. The Europeans just now controlled the coastal atomic number 18as. This all changed because fag Leopold II valued rain cloud for Portugal and nonionised a privy cathexis to form congou tea let loose State. mogul Leopold and other(a) countries wanted to bump off favor of its gold, timber, land, timber, and diligence power.When France ascertained world-beater Leopold IIs scheme, she got half-baked which ultimately conclusioned in this conference. The net result of this conference culminated in the oecumenical do of BerlinConference. This written document proscribed external break ones back trade, do congou tea unloosen State a clandestine situation of congo ball club (although Leopold unsounded uses it as his privat e property), stick out idle trade in congo landmark and Lake Niassa, and stand disembarrass broadcast commerce on the Niger and congo river.A tonic act of the African guiltless was created. It split up the grand continent into 50 geometrical countries with no regards for pagan and lingual boundaries of the ingrained Africans. The only countries remain forfeit are Ethiopia and Liberia (USs outlandish to excrete slaves to their motherland. exclusively in all, the Berlin Conference caused Africans to lose their liberty and ushered in heightened compound activity.