It approved partition among European powers and agreed that future acquisitions could be gained by "effective occupation" - in other words force. What had previously been a matter largely of exploration and (usually predatory) treaty-making would henceforth be a process of armed conquest of the interior. For Congo, the conference formalised the brutal personal rule of King Leopold II and his private intermediaries.
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There are a number of things that the Berlin conference accomplished. The European nations came agreed on how to divide the African countries peacefully. The conference took place in 1885.
The Berlin Conference determined the methods of partitioning Africa. Colonial boundaries that emerged after this conference created artificial borders of the colonial states.
The countries that attended the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) were Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Danmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), the Ottomn Empire (Turkey), and the United States of America.
The Berlin Conference began in 1884 and it regulated European Colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! or The united states was invited to this conference but had no territorial claims in Africa.
that European nations would have to alert one another about any African territory they claimed.
Serbia, Romania, and Montenegro gained full independence.
The relative location of Berlin is Poland.