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Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who discovered South Africa?

  1. David Livingstone

  2. Joseph Priestly

  3. Bartholomeu Diaz

  4. Antoine Lavoisier

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Bartholomeu Diaz was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic. This proved Africa could be circumnavigated by sea.

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