The Berlin Conference was given because the countries of Europe were fearing that they would spark a war because of the demand of diamonds in Africa and about who would control this industry. So they made the Berlin Conferecne of 1884 and 1885 to discuss who would get which parts of Africa and those countries who claimed a country must notify the other Eurpoean powers.
To decide what shall be done with Africa....that would make an agreement based on whatever nation whom wanted to own a part of Africa would proclaim it and therefore aviod wars or fights.
King Leopold of Belgium became the monarch of the Congo Free State.
This was a meeting of European nations, held in Berlin, to divide the continent for colonization. The US did not attend, as it was not interested.
Rizal's life in Berlin
a race for territory and influence
England took over South Africa in 1885.
Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference, which took place in 1884 - 1885 is known by a couple of alternate names. One is the Congo Conference, and the other is the Berlin West Africa Conference.
The country was Africa :)
The reason for the Berlin Conference was to establish a way to divide Africa, while preventing European countries going to\ war for it.
All of Africa was divided amongst the European powers
During the Berlin Conference of 1805, European nations divvied up Africa and claimed their colonial holdings. This would lead to decades of economic and social oppression as European nations used African resources and people to make money.
1884 - 1885. Goal was to divide up Africa between all the European nations except for Switzerland.
At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 the European nations decided on how they would divide up the ownership of Central Africa to avoid fighting over it. The conference didn't actually approve the territorial claims of the European nations, but they did agree on a set of rules to avoid conflict in partitioning of the region.
the Congo was opened to the trade by all member nations
There were two major outcomes of the Berlin conference of the 1884 and 1885. First is that the European nations were united and the second outcome was the rules that were set up on how to each would get a share of African countries to colonize.
The city of Berlin, Germany was the site of the Berlin Conference from November, 1884 to February, 1885, during which European countries negotiated colonial boundaries and trade during the "Scramble for Africa" (New Imperialism) that began around 1880.
The Berlin Conference put almost the whole continent of Africa under European rule. European leaders removed some African rulers from power or changed the way they ruled; some European foods were also introduced to Africa.