The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung. The Berlin Conference of the 1884–1885s was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, [1] an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

2025年1月3日 · Berlin West Africa Conference, a series of negotiations (Nov. 15, 1884–Feb. 26, 1885) at Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa. The conference, proposed by Portugal in pursuance of its special claim to control

3 天之前 · The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 marked the climax of the European competition for territory in Africa, a process commonly known as the Scramble for Africa.During the 1870s and early 1880s European nations such as Great Britain, France, and Germany began looking to Africa for natural resources for their growing industrial sectors as well as a potential market for …

In 1884 the leaders of fourteen European countries and the United States came together to discuss control of Africa’s resources. Known as The Berlin Conference, they sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people. Of these fourteen nations at the Berlin Conference, …

2024年9月14日 · At the time of the Berlin Conference, 80 percent of Africa remained under traditional and local control. What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into 50 irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed over 1,000 indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. The new countries lacked ...

2023年10月19日 · The Berlin Conference was a meeting of 14 nations, including the United States, from November 1884 to February 1885 in Berlin, Germany. It was convened to regulate the colonization and trade in Africa, and it led to the …

The Berlin Conference had established the river basins of Niger and Congo as free routes for international trade. The territorial claims were to be submitted to a Conference of States and the claims were established only after this conference had agreed on them. As an outcome of this conference, Congo would not only become a Belgian colony, it ...

Congress of Berlin, (June 13–July 13, 1878), diplomatic meeting of the major European powers at which the Treaty of Berlin replaced the Treaty of San Stefano, which had been signed by Russia and Turkey (March 3, 1878) at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.

The Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) was a diplomatic conference to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), which had been won by Russia against the Ottoman Empire.

2024年12月29日 · The Berlin Conference: causes and outcomes. Leopold II’s coup immediately sent the great European chancelleries into fibrillation, which rushed to grab concessions of territories first in the areas close to the “Congo basin” and, subsequently, in other areas of the continent, increasing international tensions and, consequently, the ...