Why do people colonize? and The reason behind colonization leads to exploitation

People do colonize over the countries to extend their authority for profit and advance of their country. In 1876 Belgian’s King Leopold II (1835-1909) of Belgian colonized central Africa, the Congo region, to monopolize the rubber and ivory trade. Territory of the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo was over two million squared kilometers, which was suiting for Leopold’s plan. He was forcing native people to work severely, punished cruelly to the labors that resisted. Leopold wanted to advance his own country, Belgian, even thought to destroy all the native people’s cultural identity.

When the colonizers decided to colonize the country, they’re already thinking about the exploitation of the colonized country. Leopold was planning to make Congo to be their one of the way to be successful. They were premeditating since they decided to choose the land of Congo to advance their own country. Have a huge area to populate people for a labor movement, and take resources from the country for trading to earn money. Also the colonizers had more power than the colonized therefore they took an advantage of them moreover pushed away the colonized to be the colonizers’ way. As a result, to make their country advance, which is the reason behind the colonization, and it leads to exploitation to control the colonized.