One of the methods used by Europeans to acquire huge land grants in Africa was to
A) grant Africans equal territory elsewhere.
B) mutually agree upon contracts with fair monetary compensation.
C) present illiterate chiefs with treaties they could not read.
D) constantly resort to war.
E) international conferences before colonization began.
C
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