Imperialism in Belgian Congo started around 1885, and it lasted until 1908. It happened in Eastern Africa and the Congo. There was a big demand for rubber, so they made the Africans work for it without pay. If they didn't produce enough rubber they destroy your town, murder your family, or cut off your arm. They were the slaves of the Belgian people. If the Africans rebelled, the Belgian were instructed to kill them and chop off one of their hands to prove they killed them without wasting any bullets. The soldiers had bigger and more advanced guns than the Africans due to the industrial revolution. The Africans couldn't fight back because the machine gun of the soldiers.
