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Africa's interior rivers are broken by waterfalls, so Europeans moved inland using:
ASteamboats
BSteam looms
CSteam mills
DSteam ovens
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Steamboats
1. Large sailing ships could not pass the falls.
2. Smaller powered craft could work the upper rivers.
3. Steamboats carried them inland.
_Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 9, The Second Industrial Revolution._
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