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What European country controlled the trade on east Africa's coast until well into the 1600s?
"Controlled" should be used loosely since it was until the British and Spanish Navies of the 1700's that any nation had the ability to actually control the trade route around the southern tip of Africa, but Portuguese explorers were the first to discover it. By progressively exploring further south, each ship's captain made written maps and records that were advanced by the next explorer (they left markers on the shore to those that followed). Bartolomeau Diaz was first to discover tip and Vasco de Gama then the first to make his way around the tip to India in 1498. Through their knowledge of the route, they dominated the trade route, but by late 1500s/early 1600s others had also discovered it for themselves and were using it widely. This was still a long and difficult passageway to India which drove nations to try to find a shorter route by going west across the Atlantic and this subsequently led to discovery and exploration of North/South America by Columbus and others.
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To which country in the 1600s did the portuguese lose control of trade in the Indian ocean?
Dutch
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What European country controlled Cameroon?
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England
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germany
