Author Question: Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to ... (Read 105 times)

jasdeep_brar · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

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

a. there was little of value for them there.
b. sea travel down the African coast had been virtually impossible.
c. Islamic societies prevented Europe from making inroads there.
d. they did not know that it existed.
e. they feared the people who lived there.

Question 2

By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by

a. the temperance movement.
b. the movement to improve treatment and conditions for the mentally ill.
c. abolitionism.
d. prison reform advocates.
e. evangelical revivalism.