Flashcard sets with a 'king leopold ii' term meaning 'he is best known as the founder and sole owner of the congo free state that included the entire area known known as the democratic republic of the congo. he ran the congo brutally though, serving as his own personal fiefdom. the regime of leopold's congo free state, became one of the most infamous international scandals of the turn of the century (mostly involving the arrests and punishments of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded mass killings during a rubber-collecting expedition)'

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