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What was the basic social unit in the western Sudan after 1000 B.C.E.?

Under the reign of Mansa Musa, what happened to the city of Timbuktu?

How many climatic zones is Africa divided into? ?

What did Greco-Roman ships traveling down from the east coast of Africa take to trade with peoples of that region? ?

In the tenth century, Ghana became powerful by capturing what territory?

The introduction of Coptic Christianity into Ethiopia is traditionally ascribed to whom?

The polyglot coastal culture of East Africa is known as what?

What animal made trans-Saharan trade viable?

What likely caused the fifteenth-century decline of Great Zimbabwe?

Which of the following describes religious practices in western Sudan?

Which of the following was a consequence of Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324-1325?

What does the term Bantu refer to?

What was one result of the development of agriculture in early Africa?

What crop was a major contributor to the rise in population of central Africa around 1000 C.E.?

Royal descent in Ghana was hereditary. Who succeeded a king upon his death?

Which of Africa's climate zones is best suited to grain-based agriculture?

The village of Nok in Nigeria is famed for which of the following metallurgic skills?

Although many peoples settled in East Africa, including Arabs and Persians, much of Madagascar was settled by people from what area?

Ethiopia was the first black African society that

How did Christianity influence marriage norms in Ethiopia?

What was the most common form of leadership in the stateless societies of Africa?

Following the conversion of North Africans to Islam, where did the deepest penetration of Islam occur south of the Sahara?

Which of the following is true of the Kebra Negast?

In the eleventh century, much of the gold from western Sudan spread to Asia to pay for what commodity from India?

From where did Africans first gain ideas about settled agriculture?

What does the term ghana mean?

Approximately how many Africans were forced, according to the estimate of scholars, into the trans-Saharan slave trade between 650 and 1500?

How did the development of the saddle contribute positively to the growth of trans-Saharan trade?

How did the expansion of Islam into northern Ethiopia in the eighth century affect the city of Aksum?

A common belief in most African religions held that

Scholars speculate that crops such as bananas and plantains originated where?

Among the Asante in modern-day Ghana and the Yoruba in modern-day Nigeria, what figure held power equal to or even greater than the king?

Why did the civilization of Ghana develop in the southern portion of Wagadou?

Mali's success as a kingdom was aided in part by which of the following?

What role outside of religion did Ghana's Muslim religious leaders play?

Africa's climate is mostly

Even up to 1955, Ethiopia's rulers have claimed that they can trace their line of succession back to which of the following?

What was the greatest source of income for the king of Ghana?

What was Mansa Musa's most significant innovation?

Kingship in the western Sudan may have emerged out of what social role?

What role did race play in the African slave trade?

How did Muslims and non-Muslims interact in Ghana?

What are the Namib and the Kalahari?

After gold, what was the most important trade commodity to come out of West Africa?

On what was political authority in the Ethiopian kingdom based?

After the eighth century, most of the Berbers had converted to what religion?

What was Mansa Musa's most significant innovation?

By the fifteenth century, some 150 schools in Timbuktu were devoted to which of the following?

Where did the Bantu peoples originate?

During Ghana's heyday, what were the Mandinka known for?