Which of the Following Statements Is False

Which of the following statements is false?

A) the farther south in Africa, the more tenuous the contacts with Mediterranean cultures.
B) North Africa had always remained independent of the classical empires of Egypt and Rome.
C) Western and northern Africa and Egypt had always been connected by trade routes with Saharan and central African societies.
D) Trade routes to North Africa were generally controlled by the Berbers.
E) Egypt and the Sudan were connected by the exchanges of goods, peoples, and ideas.