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AP World History 4.4 Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 to c. 1900. The deterrent that made a full-scale inland invasion of Africa nearly impossible for British forces was...what?

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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by inland invasions a term you may remember your dad

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using every time mom went into the garage during a

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man time right here's our question the deterrent that made

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a full scale inland invasion of africa nearly impossible for

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british forces was what and your potential and well don't

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let the word inland fool you This is an a

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geography question Sure the african coast can be rocking Take

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a look at this headland people adore but you think

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a few big rocks or about to stop the british

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forces think you can't since we're on a roll let's

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take geographic features that weren't a top concern to the

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bridge for eight hundred alex if the rocky coast into

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term then we can knock that big old desert in

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the middle of africa off list as well After all

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the brits wanted to conquer not trade through the desert

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and trades What a quaint british term it's are you

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tracing on is our winner but only if we're looking

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for the most outrageously incorrect answer available This is the

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british empire people that's who we're talking about here here's

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a photo of everyone in the world that had better

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weaponry than they did it's time Yeah we rest our

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case is out That leaves us with c if there's

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one thing history's taught us about wars it's the disease

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often kills more troops than anything else It was this

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knowledge that prevented the brits from launching a full scale

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invasion In fact the threat of disease didn't just keep

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the brits out kept out pretty much everyone and what

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is often referred to as the scramble for africa Every

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european power was drooling over conquering africa like we sometimes

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dreamed about conquering an entire cake By eighteen seventy only

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ten percent of the entire continent was under european control

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primarily because of the pervasive threat of malaria Of course

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the discovery of quinine is a viable treatment to malaria

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Put a quick end to this problem allowing the europeans

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to take control of nearly all of africa throughout the

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eighteen eighties and nineties But until that point the threat

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of disease was definitely the main thing Stopping i'm making

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cr correct answer Three cheers for disease dudes i pray 00:02:02.08 --> [endTime] you

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