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"For a historical appreciation [of the slave trade],one must turn to the fairly abundant but problematic writing of sixteenth and seventeenth century visitors from Europe,and a few central African texts. Many of the [European] visitors,especially missionaries,were hostile to African religious ideas and practices,which caused,which caused them to misrepresent African religion,but these early observers had the tremendous advantage of witnessing the religions at first hand during the period of the slave trade. Contemporary eyewitness testimony,for all its problems,is still [central to] the historians' craft."
Linda Heywood,Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora,2002
-Sustained contact between Africans and Europeans in the early colonial period often resulted in which of the following?
A) Increases in the conversion of Europeans to Islam
B) Decreases in technological exchanges between Africans and Europeans
C) Homogenization of culture in the Atlantic world
D) Significantly altered worldviews of politics, religion, and culture

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The excerpt mentions that early European visitors to Africa had the advantage of witnessing African religion first hand during the period of the slave trade, despite their hostility towards it. This sustained contact between Africans and Europeans during the early colonial period likely led to significant alterations in worldviews of politics, religion, and culture.

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