Ethnicity and borders
Who colonized the Congo
Who is King Leopold II
What is the most prominent religion in modern day Congo
What is Roman Catholicism?
What is the official language of the Congo?
How many types of schools where in the Belgian Congo?
What is five?
What where the two main resources King Leopold II was looking for in the Congo?
What is rubber and ivory?
What is the Belgian Congo now known as?
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
What religion were the missionaries?
What is Roman Catholic?
How many languages are spoke in the Congo
What is over 200?
What was taught at the schools?
What is Catholic morals, Western ideology, bible training and French?
What was the name of King Leopold II's private army
What is the Force Publique?
How many territories bordered the Belgian Congo?
What is seven?
What was the missionaries goals?
What is instilling morals and discipline through religious conversion?
Why are most of the languages in the Congo still spoken in some part today?
What is King Leopold employed a number of men from different European countries that spoke a variety of languages often not including French?
What is the difference between between écoles libres subsidiés and écoles libres
What is the former was government funded?
Why where rubber vines a better way to get rubber than rubber trees?
What is they grew faster and where more plentiful?
Where did European settle in the Congo, and where did the Congolese people live?
What is, Europeans settled in urban areas, and Congolese in rural ones?
What were the missionaries being accused of, after King Leopold was exposed?
What is culpability of the Kings actions and failure to act?
Who taught Congolese children French?
What is Roman Catholic missionaries
What was the highest level of education children could receive and why?
What is elementary level because King Leopold II wanted laborers with basic educations?
What is the name and main pros and cons of the 1899 book by Joseph Conrad?
What is the Heart of Darkness? Pros: First book to explore the issues with colonialism. Cons: Was filled with racism and sexism.
What did Leopold heavily moderate to hide what he was doing to the Congolese people?
What is tourism?
There are two religious categories that make up only .02% of the population. What are they?
What is Orthodox (Christian) and Atheism?
What are the four national languages spoken in the Congo?
What is Kikongo (Kituba), Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba?
there are five types of schools:
1.) Ecolés officielles Congo
2.) Ecolés professionnelles
3.) Ecolés libres subsidiés
4.) Ecolés libres
5.) Commercial companies
Who owned and operated each of the schools?
What is
1.) Ecolés officielles Congo
state owned, and run by missionaries
2.) Ecolés professionnelles
owned and operated by the state
3.) Ecolés libres subsidiés
owned and operated by missionaries, but funded by the state
4.) Ecolés libres
owned and operated by missionaries
5.) Commercial companies
Commercial companies
What where the four forms of labor mentioned in the presentation?
What is wood harvesting, rubber harvesting, ivory harvesting and road building?