Question

David Livingstone was the first European to cross the continent of ______.

A. Africa
B. South America
C. Asia
D. Australia

Answer 1

a

Answer 2

Yeah it is A. Africa

Answer 3

Missionary-explorer, explorer-missionary. Although the emphasis in David Livingstone’s life’s work alternated, both vocations are united in his legacy as the most revered and influential foreign traveler to the African continent. His journeys--conducted on foot, by oxcart, canoe, and boat, and on the shoulders of native companions--spanned thirty-two years and covered forty thousand miles of terrain virtually unknown to Europeans. He was the first white man to cross the continent (west to east) and the first to view Victoria Falls, which he named. Although Livingstone is known to have converted only one African to Christianity, a friend who was a Bakwain chief, he showed vast possibilities for the missionaries who followed his path of practical benevolence. As a recent biographer put it: “Through him, the centre of Africa ceased to be a dark, unknown space on the map and became a real place, full of interesting human beings [and] wonderful wildlife. . . .”I think I would rather cross the African continent again than undertake to write about it. I intended on going to Africa to continue my studies; but as I could not brook the idea of simply entering into other men's labors made ready to my hands, I entailed on myself, in addition to teaching, manual labor in building and other handicraft work, which made me generally as much exhausted and unfit for study in the evenings as ever I had been when a cotton-spinner. The want of time for self-improvement was the only source of regret that I experienced during my African career.

—Livingstone, from preface to Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)

Answer 4

Darn, you beat me to it @dantehensley :P

Answer 5

lol i always do XD

Answer 6

You give me medal I give you medal?