alleryRinderpest arrived in Africa in the:
ALate 1830s
BEarly 1920s
CEarly 1770s
DLate 1880s
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Late 1880s
1. Rinderpest was a devastating cattle disease.
2. It arrived in Africa in the late 1880s.
3. It reached the Atlantic coast by 1892 and the Cape five years later.
_Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 3 'The Making of a Global World'_
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