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What hindered European travel into the interior of Africa before the early 1800s?
What hindered European travel into the interior of Africa before the early 1800s?
- Powerful African armies
- Disease and lack of trade networks
- Rapids, cataracts, and changing flows in African rivers (correct)
- African peoples' conversion to Islam or Christianity
- European control of the continent's land
What allowed Europeans to conduct major expeditions into the interior of Africa in the early 1800s?
What allowed Europeans to conduct major expeditions into the interior of Africa in the early 1800s?
- Steam-powered riverboats (correct)
- Political range of African ethnic groups
- Established contacts with sub-Saharan Africans
- Conversion of African peoples to Christianity
- Introduction of European trade networks
What was the status of European control over Africa as of 1880?
What was the status of European control over Africa as of 1880?
- European travel into the interior was virtually impossible
- Europeans had established contacts with sub-Saharan Africans
- Powerful African armies kept the Europeans out of most of Africa
- Europeans had control over African trade networks
- Europeans controlled only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mainly on the coast (correct)
What discouraged European exploration of Africa?
What discouraged European exploration of Africa?
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What did most African peoples continue to follow in the mid-1800s?
What did most African peoples continue to follow in the mid-1800s?
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What was the religious diversity among African peoples in the mid-1800s?
What was the religious diversity among African peoples in the mid-1800s?
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What was the linguistic diversity among African peoples in the mid-1800s?
What was the linguistic diversity among African peoples in the mid-1800s?
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What hindered European travel into the interior of Africa before the early 1800s?
What hindered European travel into the interior of Africa before the early 1800s?
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What was the extent of European control over Africa as of 1880?
What was the extent of European control over Africa as of 1880?
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What discouraged European exploration of Africa?
What discouraged European exploration of Africa?
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