Practice question · True or false
The Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 drew the borders that partitioned Africa among the European powers.
Hints
- Ask what the conference’s agreed text actually contains.
- It set procedures — free navigation, notification of claims, effective occupation — rather than boundaries.
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False
Why
False, though it is one of the most durable classroom errors. The conference agreed rules, most consequentially that a claim required effective occupation, and recognised Leopold II’s Congo. The partition itself was carried out afterwards by separate treaties, chartered companies and military expeditions.
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