Learn World History 2: inability to protect themselves from malaria African societies’ superior weapons-making technology fear of large predatory animals lack of desire to secure raw materials or trade with Africans - What was a major reason Europeans did not make extensive inroads into the African interior before the middle of the nineteenth century?

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