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Jan van Riebeeck founded Cape Town in 1652, starting the European exploration and colonization of South Africa. Other early modern European presence Map of Fort James (Gambia), the first English possession in Africa
European explorers and missionaries began mapping the interior of Africa in the nineteenth-century. Adventurers like Henry Stanley revealed that Africa was full of raw materials that could be exploited to fuel the industrial revolution.
European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially under Henry the Navigator, probed along the West African coast.
After the Portuguese expeditions, European exploration of Africa largely ceased for some 200 years. European countries were more interested in exploiting the trade in slaves and gold at the west coast.
The map of the German Henricus Martellus, published in 1492, shows the shores of North Africa and of the Gulf of Guinea more or less correctly and was probably taken from numerous seamen’s charts. The delineation of the west coast of southern Africa from the Guinea Gulf to the Cape suggests a knowledge of the charts of the expedition of ...
Aug 2, 2016 · The inset shows Africa just before the Congress of Berlin; the main map shows the continent in 1914. At the Congress of Berlin in 1884, 15 European powers divided Africa among them. By 1914, these imperial powers had fully colonized the continent, exploiting its people and resources.
Saharan trade routes c. 1400, with modern Niger highlighted A map of North Africa as it was known to Europeans in 1482, created by German cartographer Lienhart Holl and based on Ptolemey's fourth map of Africa. In 1297, King Denis of Portugal took personal interest in exports.
