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Its the Norumbega fault. Its where a piece of Africa attached itself back during Pangea.
Africa has valuable natural resources for which Europe has many uses.
Africa
Europe and Asia
Africa and Europe do not share any common border. Southern Spain and the northern parts of Morocco are separated by the straights of Gibraltar, and this is as close as Africa and Europe get to be. To the east, Europe joins Asia. Some geographers call the combination of the two continents Eurasia (Europe and Asia). If you use the definition of Eurasia then Eurasia joins Africa in Egypt, which is on both sides of the Suez Canal, the separation of the two land masses.
Europe colonized Africa during the Age of Imperialism in the 19th century.
Existing during the Paleozoic and some of the Mesozoic era, the super continent in Pangea was formed about 300 million years ago. Pangea separated about 200 million years ago.
Europe and Asia
What happened to the earth's continents during Permian Period is Pangea, Pangea is when the used to be one big super continent broke apart created our separate continents today.
Europe
Black death struck in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Slaves from Africa to America, Cotton and Sugar from America to Europe, Textiles and manufactured goods to Africa.