Before the Middle of the Fifteenth Century, Sub-Saharan Africa Had

question 8

Multiple Choice

Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because

• A) there was little of value there for them.
• B) direct sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible.
• C) they looked on the Africans as racial inferiors.
• D) they did not know that it existed.
• E) they feared the people who lived there.

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