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    as either Libya or Africa, while Egypt was considered part of Asia. European exploration of sub-Saharan Africa begins with the Age of Discovery in the 15th...
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    Asia, Africa, and Australia that continued into the late 19th century, followed by the exploration of the polar regions in the 20th century. European exploration...
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    from Tyre on the north-west African coast at Carthage. European exploration of Africa began with the ancient Greeks and Romans. In 332 BC, Alexander the...
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    This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and...
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    fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman Empire effectively closed profitable trade routes with Asia, early European exploration of Africa was followed...
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    Spread of humans from Africa through the world Timeline of European exploration Timeline of maritime migration and exploration European exploration of Africa –...
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  • Swedish Gold Coast European exploration of Africa List of African territories and states by date of colonization Scramble for Africa "Centenaire de l'Entente...
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  • major eras of geographical exploration occurred in human history: The first, covering most of Human history, saw people moving out of Africa, settling...
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    several expeditions and explorations to Lake Chad and western Africa were conducted by groups of military and commercial units of Romans who moved across...
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    This is a chronology of the early European exploration of Asia. 515 BC: Scylax explores the Indus and the sea route across the Indian Ocean to Egypt. 330...
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    Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapping the coasts of Africa and Asia, then known as the East Indies...
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  • European contact may refer to: European colonization of the Americas European exploration of Australia, encompasses several waves of seafarers and land...
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    first trans-Africa exploration started in Zanzibar and reached the Lualaba on October 17, 1876. Overland he reached Nyangwe, the center of a lawless area...
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    protrusion of the Horn of Africa, describing the gulf south of the Horn of Africa as Sinus Barbaricus. With the European exploration of Africa from the...
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    Republic of Central America (1823–1841) Gran Colombia (1819–1831) Canadian Confederation (1867) European exploration of Africa Scramble for Africa French...
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  • The exploration of North America by European sailors and geographers was an effort by major European powers to map and explore the continent with the goal...
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    about Africa in modern academic fields, including African studies, are the European exploration of Africa and the Atlantic slave trade by explorers and missionaries...
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  •  'Explorers in Africa: To the Sources of the Nile') is a 1991 illustrated monograph on the European exploration of Africa. Written by the French Africanist...
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    Igala–Benin War (category Wars involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    also played a role in slavery by the Europeans since the Benin Kingdom sold slaves to the Portuguese and other European merchants. Akure–Benin War Falola...
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    Credo Mutwa. European exploration of Africa List of returned Peace Corps Volunteers Raper, R.E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. HSRC...
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    Africa and further south on the continent, the source of specialized goods such as gold, advanced iron-working, and ivory. After European exploration...
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    The Scramble for Africa was the invasion and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914)...
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    Ocean exploration is a part of oceanography describing the exploration of ocean surfaces. Notable explorations were undertaken by the Greeks, the Romans...
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  • lost expeditions List of Russian explorers Exploration of the High Alps Portugal in the period of discoveries Chronology of European exploration of Asia...
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  • [when?] exploration activities have grown in West Africa. However, lack of services became a problem for exploration companies. In 2020, West Africa received...
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    The maritime European exploration of Australia consisted of several waves of European seafarers who sailed the edges of the Australian continent. Dutch...
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    The International African Association (in full, "International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of Central Africa"; in French Association...
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    Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and...
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  • Chronology of European exploration of Asia Colonization Columbian exchange Early human migrations European exploration of Africa History of navigation...
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    Pre-Columbian Africa-Americas contact theories European exploration of Africa Colonisation of Africa Blockade of Africa Scramble for Africa African theatre of World...
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