HISB31H3 Lecture 2: Lecture notes week 2
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Industrial revolution economic expansion quest for raw materials imperialism. N britain usually kept their colonies separate, but france combined their colonies in africa. N north ( pop of nigeria) muslim (religion) N northern section put together with western and southern groups of nigeria. N east (poor) migrant into north and west and best educated as well. N l opold ii set up congo as an enterprise not as colony hired henry stanley (1878 1883) N european recognition 1885 (1 million square miles) l opold got congo. N then rubber was exported, increasing 6000 times in just 11 years (1890 1 tonnes 1901 6000 tonnes) 1885 1908 10 million killed = population of congo. N triumvirate (1908) (power of three) government (administration) N estimated taken from congo from 1885 to 1950 is about trillion in current terms. N tutsi (15% population) (feudal elite) hutu (bonded labour)
