why had Europeans called Africa a dark continent
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"Dark Continent" was used far back in the sixteenth century for places
that were unexplored, little known, or
uninhabited. It was also applied to places like South America or the
extreme cold and night-ridden places like Greenland. But with time it
got synonymous with Africa. The Europeans took Africans as
different,backward, less knowledgeable, underproductive
and ignorant of modernism. There were looked down upon for not
embracing world
religions & carrying human and animal sacrifices,
superstitions, blood rituals, witchcraft, ancestral worship and
veneration, and in polygamy. They lived in huts and hovels. They wore
little or no clothing, slung
babies on their backs. Africa meant wilderness of
jungles and animals; and of tropical diseases and parasites so several
Europeans were struck by maladies such as malaria during the slave
trade. So Africa turned 'Black Africa' and was regarded as unsafe &
dangerous place to live in during that time.
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Most of the Africa is located in tropical region and receive lot of sunshine and day light. It is the only continent through which Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn run. Then, why it is called as dark continent
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