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  2. Portuguese maritime exploration - Wikipedia

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    Anonymous map c.1550 of Eastern Africa, Asia and Western Oceania In April 1511 Albuquerque sailed to Malacca in modern-day Malaysia, [ 38 ] the most important eastern point in the trade network, where Malay met Gujarati, Chinese, Japanese, Javanese, Bengali, Persian and Arabic traders, described by Tomé Pires as invaluable.

  3. T and O map - Wikipedia

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    A classic "T-O" map with Jerusalem at center, east toward the top, Europe at bottom left and Africa on the right. A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the ...

  4. Languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo.

  5. Scramble for Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Scramble for Africa [a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

  6. Genetic history of Africa - Wikipedia

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    While many studies conducted on Horn of Africa populations estimate a West-Eurasian admixture event around 3,000 years ago, [57] [40] [39] [58] Hodgson et al. (2014) found a distinct West-Eurasian ancestral component among studied Afroasiatic-speaking groups in the Horn of Africa (and to a lesser extent in North Africa and West Asia), most ...

  7. Red Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Red Sea serves an important role in the global economy, with cargo vessels traveling between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea every year, thus shortening the path between Asia and Europe almost by half (as compared to traveling around Africa via the Atlantic Ocean). [53] 12% of global trade passes through the Red Sea. [54]

  8. Geography of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Most of the country lies within the wide band of desert that stretches eastwards from Africa's Atlantic Coast across the continent and into southwest Asia. Historically relevant here is The principles and objects of geology, with special reference to the geology of Egypt (1911) by W. F. Hume

  9. Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

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    He established a new unified polity in Arabia based in Medina that expanded rapidly under the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate, culminating in Muslim rule being established on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe) over the next century.

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