Context: The area north of the Congo River came under French sovereignty in 1880 as a result of Pierre de Brazza's treaty with Makoko of the Bateke. This Congo Colony became known first as French Congo, then as Middle Congo in 1903. In 1908, France organized French Equatorial Africa (AEF), comprising Middle Congo, Gabon, Chad, and Oubangui-Chari (the modern Central African Republic). The French designated Brazzaville as the federal capital. Economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule in Congo centered on natural-resource extraction. The methods were often brutal: construction of the Congo–Ocean Railroad following World War I has been estimated to have cost at least 14,000 lives.

Question: When did the French take control of the region to the north of the Congo River?
Answer: 1880

Question: Who brokered a traty with the Makoko people?
Answer: Pierre de Brazza

Question: What was the French Congo's name changed to in 1903?
Answer: Middle Congo

Question: What group of French colonies was created in 1908?
Answer: French Equatorial Africa

Question: How many people are estimated to have died as a result of the creation of the Congo-Ocean Railroad?
Answer: 14,000

Question: When did the area south of the Congo River come under French sovereignty? 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When did Middle Congo become known as French Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the Bateke designate as the federal capital?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule ignore?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How many lives were lost building the Congo-Ocean Railroad before World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable