PLEASE HELP ASAP! WILL FAN AND MEDAL!
22. to Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as the
A) Cape of Good Hope
B) Land of Salt
C) Gold Coast
D) Burning Land

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PLEASE HELP ASAP! WILL FAN AND MEDAL!
22. to Portuguese explorers, the southern coast of West Africa became known as the
A) Cape of Good Hope
B) Land of Salt
C) Gold Coast
D) Burning Land

wwhitlock · Answer

The modern country of Ghana, in West Africa, is a former British colony known as Gold Coast. The first Europeans to visit by ocean was the Portuguese in the late 1400s.