Which statement about the Berlin Conference is FALSE?
a. France, Britain, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Spain were participants in the conference.
b. The conference would decide how Africa would be partitioned.
c. Only those powers that demonstrated effective occupation of a territory would be awarded that territory.
d. Africans were given an important voice in the discussions and decisions at the conference.
e. The results of the conference plunged Africa into years of military action, killing millions of Africans.
d
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