How did Belgium get an Empire? (Short Animated Documentary)

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How did Belgium get an empire? The other European nations gave them one so they wouldn't fight over it.

Sources:

King Leopold's Imperialism and the Origins of the Belgian Colonial Party, 1860–1905 by Vincent Viaene.

Belgium, the Congo, and Imperial Immobility: A Singular Empire and the Historiography of the Single Analytic Field by Matthew G. Stanard.

Anglo-Belgian Military Relations and the Congo Question, 1911-1913 by Mary Elizabeth Thomas.

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