Timeline for Why was Africa colonized last of the continents in the Age of Discovery?
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 18:07 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Evargalo: Not, AFAIK, a lot of it that had been collected by the natives. Don't know about Ghana, but South African gold mines these days require advanced hard-rock mining techniques, while much of the original American gold could be mined with low-tech placer techniques, like the stereotypical '49er with his gold pan. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 9:52 | comment | added | Evargalo | Ghana and South Africa had gold too... | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 5:32 | history | answered | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |