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Between 1500 and 1800 what was a main reason Europeans did not enter the interior of Africa

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During 1500 - 1800 Muslim controls of North Africa placed a type of obstacle to European exploration of interior of Africa from north. So the Dutch were the starters to en-route in direction to interior including South Africa as a part of developing routes to trade with Asia

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Because of disease. Malaria was a deadly, very common sickness in the interior of Africa.

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