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C. Namibia’s western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. South Africa was comprised of former colonies of Britain, a foe of Germany in World War I.
B. What is now the Democratic Republic of Congo was taken over in 1885 by King Leopold II, who used murder and mutilation – chopping off hands – to force the native population to extract ivory, rubber and minerals. It is estimated that half the population died before Leopold II’s personal rule ended in 1908.
A. Tasmania is about 150 miles south of Australia, and its Aboriginal population was estimated to have been between 3,000 and 15,000 when the British started arriving in 1803. Thirty years later only 400 remained and were removed to internment camps where the last person of solely Tasmanian descent died in 1905.
B. By 1900 the indigenous population in the Americas declined by more than 80%, and by as much as 98% in some areas. The effects of Old World diseases during the first century of colonialism contributed greatly to the death toll, while violence, displacement and warfare by colonizers added more deaths in subsequent centuries.