The European approach to The interior of Africa in the eighteenth century

Bibliographic Data

ID8980159
AuthorsRobin Hallett (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages53-68
Publication date2019-07-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315253312-4
OpenAlexW4243019693, W2096723046
ISBN9781315253312
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited4

By the middle of the sixteenth century, Europeans had made themselves aware of the broad outlines of the Continents of Asia, Africa and America. Two hundred years later many of the most striking facts of the geography of the great land-masses had been revealed. In Asia, Siberia had been traversed, China mapped, and Tibet visited, while a vigorous trade was maintained with all the countries of the Eastern Seas. Most of the coast and many of the great lakes and rivers of the Americas had been charted, and flourishing European communities established from Lima to Quebec. Far more was known of Africa than its coastline: a large part of Ethiopia had been visited during the era of Portuguese influence at the beginning of the seventeenth century; Catholic missionaries had worked in the Eastern Sudan in the first decade of the eighteenth century; the Moorish geographers, Idrisi and Leo Africanus, both of whose works were constantly used by European cartographers, provided a succinct account of the citier and states of the Sahara and the Sudan; on the Upper Senegal the French had by 1750 successfully maintained for half a century a trading post over four hundred miles from the sea; in Southern Africa individual adventurers had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Portuguese colonies in Angola and Mozambique, and of the Dutch settlement at the Cape

Adventure · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cape · China · Ethnology · Flourishing · Geography · Human settlement · Political science · Portuguese · Settlement (finance · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · European Political History Analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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