Why did Europeans put all those efforts for lands that have 0 economic value? Why didn’t they just occupy the mines and coasts then leave the whole thing intact? You don’t need to build schools, hospitals and churches in the middle of Congolese forest
>>18534939Probably saw how happy everybody was without civilization and got jealous and had to ruin them.
>>18534939>You don’t need to build schools, hospitals and churches in the middle of Congolese forestthey didn't, the christian missions did it. Private exploitation was basically what you said, a mine or a plantation connected with a railway to a port
>>18534939he was not that tall
>>18536462We would have found the footprints
>>18536495Wheres the bomes?
>>18536462Proofs?
>>18534939If I were black I would feel so humiliated by this picture lol
>>18536462>tfw your BWC eclipses whole african countries
>>18534939>Why did Europeans put all those efforts for lands that have 0 economic value?LAND never has zero value no matter how shitty it might seem.
>>18537415>AAAGAARDBREENcome on, this must be some sort of parody.
>>18537415>>18538426also:Cape Circoncision.
It was a dumb prestige project that incoherently mixed national vanity, humanitarian causes, economic exploitation, and irrational FOMO. Also some lingering Napoleonic machismo that saw conquest for its own sake as cool.
