Although Africa does not have many rivers it has the Congo, Niger, and Zambezi. It also has the longest river in the world, The Nile. The Nile stretches over 6,695 kilometers. The interesting thing about it is that it flows north. This river helped the rise of the Egyptian civilization because the people learned to control the flooding. The fertile soil by The Nile River helped great civilization rise. Deserts take up forty percent of Africa. One third of Africa is the Sahara Desert which contains mostly rock and gravel; this does not leave a lot of farm land. Many geographic features prevented contact, trade and unity among African people. Africa has mountains as well such as Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro. Africa has only a few natural harbors, for that reason it’s hard to land ships around Africa. It does have natural resources such as: gold,

Europeans affected the continent of Africa in many ways. Some of these ways were good and some were bad. They did help industrialize the African society, but they also did bad things such as create slavery. The important thing is they left Africa alone and most of what they took over they gave back. They also stopped slavery; people are no longer taken from home and forced into slavery. Even though everything happened a long time ago, European affects are still seen today.

Even though Europeans caused a lot of harm, not everything that they did hurt the natives of Africa. Europeans helped spread Christianity. They had bible study groups where they discussed the bible. They also helped develop Africa. The Europeans build roads, mines, bridges, and dams that helped make land more manageable. With all of those people could get to places better and faster. Europeans used the resources that were not used before and that benefited many countries.

Europeans thought they were benefiting the natives of Africa. To them it was a sort of adventure to come to African land and take over and try to control the natives. Missionaries and colonists were seen as noble men. Europeans changed the local customs, history, and tradition. If the natives resisted more force would have been used by the Europeans. One of the east kingd

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