The region of present Cote d'lvoire, like…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

The region of present Cote d'lvoire, like the rest of West Africa, is subject to these influences, but the absence of sheltered harbors along its coastline had prevented Europeans from establishing permanent trading posts.

Seaborne trade, therefore, is irregular and plays only a minor role in the penetration and eventual conquest by Europeans of Cote d'lvoire.

The slave trade, in particular, has little effect on the peoples of Cote d'lvoire.

A profitable trade in ivory, which gives the area its name, was carried out during the seventeenth century, but it brought about such a decline in elephants that the trade itself virtually had died out by the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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Akan people View → Dyula people View → Gyaaman View → Abron tribe View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → France, constitutional monarchy of View → France, Second Republic of View →

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Exploration of Africa, Later European View →

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