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  1. David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
    3: ...ottish]] [[missionary]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remember...
    6: ...ing in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter h...
    12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Victoria Falls]] ...
    17: ...racts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels.
    19: ...ed great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]].
  2. Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
    2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
    6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
    8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
    15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
    17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha...
  3. Africa (35389 bytes)
    8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
    37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
    51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
    53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
    55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ...
  4. Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
    1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
    3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
    5: ==Exploration by land==
    6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
    7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ...
  5. Madagascar (29377 bytes)
    2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
    57: ...in [[1885]] in return for eventual control over [[Zanzibar]] (now part of [[Tanzania]]) and as part of an ov...
    68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
    70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
    72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but...
  6. Tanzania (17411 bytes)
    38: ...lished_events = &nbsp;-Tanganyika<br>&nbsp;-Zanzibar <br>&nbsp;-Merge |
    59: ...ndent in 1961. Tanganyika and the neighbouring [[Zanzibar]] &mdash; which had become independent in [[1963]...
    65: In [[January 2001]], at least 27 people were killed when police opened fire on [[peacefu...
    67: ... surges along Tanzania's coastline in which 11 people were killed. An [[oil tanker]] also temporarily...
    74: ...aws passed by the National Assembly are valid for Zanzibar only in specifically designated union matters.
  7. Henry Morton Stanley (3669 bytes)
    1: ...d [[List of explorers|explorer]] famous for his exploration of [[Africa]] and his search for [[David L...
    5: [[Image:Henry_Morton_Stanley.jpg|thumb|Famous explorer who said "Dr.Livingstone, I presume?"]]
    7: ...the paper's owner, how much he could spend. The reply was "Draw �1,000 now, and when you have gone t...
    9: ...eing to solve the last great mystery of African exploration by tracing the course of the river [[Congo...
  8. John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
    1: ... British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to [[Africa]]. He also created the [[Hamit...
    5: ...as his companion. The two travelled inland from [[Zanzibar]] and discovered [[Lake Tanganyika]]. They heard ...
    9: ...er with [[James Augustus Grant]], Speke left from Zanzibar in October [[1860]]. They travelled on the west s...
    11: ...ot be sure they were the same river. A debate was planned between the two on [[September 16]], [[1864]...
    13: *The complete text of [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3284 T...
  9. Kenya (15142 bytes)
    51: ...ermany|German]] protectorate over the Sultan of [[Zanzibar]]'s coastal possessions in [[1885]], followed by ...
    55: ...val of the War Council. The operation effectively placed [[Nairobi]] under military siege and the occu...
    57: ...ions for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957. Despite British hopes of handing powe...
    72: ...nance, such as the fight against corruption and a planned large-scale privatization of government-owne...
    99: ... Program]] lapsed. A new economic team was put in place in 1999 to revitalize the reform effort, stren...
  10. Leopard (7605 bytes)
    4: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
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    22: ...ainland South-East Asia, and the islands of Java, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka.
    29: ...Rudraprayag is claimed to have killed over 125 people, and the Panar Leopard allegedly killed 400 afte...
  11. Slavery (26455 bytes)
    1: ... specific form, known as '''chattel slavery''', implies the [[property|legal ownership]] of a person o...
    4: ... be returned if they escape. Control may be accomplished through official or tacit arrangements with ...
    6: ... the strictest sense of the word, "slaves" are people who work for someone else but are not paid, and ...
    8: ...gally be killed or beaten by their overseers. People subject to the above conditions are all covered ...
    10: ...nsent. It is not necessarily experiencing the complete lack of freedom found in chattel slavery. Man...
  12. Leopards (8935 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
    11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
    19: ...l spotted one. "Panthers", in other words, are simply dark-furred leopards (or a dark form of several ...
    21: ...a]], and the islands of [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Zanzibar]], and [[Sri Lanka]].
    29: ...Rudraprayag is claimed to have killed over 125 people and the Panar Leopard allegedly killed 400 after...

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