HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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David Livingstone
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Matthew Perry
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Robert Fulton
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Victor Emmanuel
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Detailed explanation-1: -David Livingstone was the first European to cross the continent from west to east and to discover the Zambesi River, the Victoria Falls and several major central African lakes. His publications about these explorations and the slave trade brought great fame.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was left for 19th-century European explorers, including those searching for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley, to complete the exploration of Africa by the 1870s.
Detailed explanation-3: -David Livingstone, Africa’s Greatest Explorer: The Man, The Missionary and the Myth.
Detailed explanation-4: -David Livingstone was one of the most famous 19th century pre-colonial European explorers of Africa-a Christian missionary obsessed with trying to find the source of the Nile River.