The Spanish Empire qualifies as such.
Fossils of the glossopteris fern, which have been found across South America, Africa, India, Antarctica, and Australia. Fossil eveidence of a triassic land reiple lystrosaurus are also found across Africa, India, Antarctica and Australia.
You can't sail across Africa. No water.
No, Christopher Columbus did not discover Africa or South America in 1997. Columbus was an Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Americas in 1492, long before 1997. Africa is a continent that has been known for millennia, and Columbus never set foot on it during his expeditions.
If you look at a map of the world you can see that South America and Africa used to be joined. People have discovered that the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa have the same rock type. Also there was animals that lived in South America and in Africa, people were wondering how they could of got to Africa from America without flying or swimming, they must of been able to walk across from the two countries. The Continental Drift from the plates drifted the two countries apart and that causes the world to be as it is now. When the world first begun, all the countries were joint together so you could of walked from Scotland to France, but the Continental Drift drifted all the countries apart.
Equator
the highway from america to africa was hard to bulid across the ocean
Africa is southeast of the US and across the Atlantic ocean.Mexico
The distance from Africa to South America is shorter than the distance from Africa to Australia. The shortest distance between these two continents is approximately 1,400 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
A continent is a large landmass that is part of Earth's surface. There are seven continents on Earth: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Australia, and South America. These continents are spread across the globe, and their locations vary based on the coordinates of latitude and longitude.
South America
the british took African slaves across from Africa to America to trade and earn money
It is 1,600-miles from Senegal, South Africa to Brazil, South America. This is the shortest distance across the Atlantic Ocean between the two destinations.
in Russia and Europe then migrated to north America across beringia
The coffee growers of Colombia. Colombia lies across the equator in northern South America, from about 12° N down to 4° S latitude. Almost all of the Sahara is north of the Tropic of Cancer, from 23.5° N up to 33° N latitude in Africa.
In deserts across the U.S.A., Africa, Middle East, and Central America
Africa is located at the intersection of the 20 N latitude and the prime meridian. The prime meridian passes through Greenwich, London, and the 20 N latitude runs across the northern part of the African continent.