COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Question
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Africa was called ____ because the interior was largely unexplored.
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the Dark Continent
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Berlin Conference
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Geographic Lines
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Survival of the fittest
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Africa was originally dubbed the “Dark Continent” by Welsh journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who saw Africa as mysterious. Its landscapes and cultures were largely unknown to many outsiders until the late nineteenth century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Henry Stanley named Africa “The Dark Continent” in his 1878 travelogue, remarking that it was poorly known. Only 7 years later, the Congress of Berlin felt obliged to carve up the darkness into convenient chunks for the European powers’ pleasure and profit.
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