Multiple Choice Questions

Slavery in Africa
  • B. was an ancient practice that used people for a range of tasks, including military service, agricultural and construction labor, and for domestic and royal servants.
  • A. an integration of Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples took place
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
  • B. African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.
The great iron-working culture of northern Nigeria was the
  • B. Niger
  • A. mansa
  • B. Kenya
  • A. Nok
The Ethiopian Christian Dynasty which experienced a long-lasting conflict with African Muslims, was the
  • C. Zagwe
  • D. Axum.
  • B. Kenya
  • C. Sahara.
The kingdom of Mali
  • A. Ghana was the first great commercial state there.
  • C. maintained a very active pro-islamic policy under Mansa Musa
  • D. Bantu
  • B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."
Which of the following is the earliest form of surviving architecture found in Africa?
  • A. Stone was increasingly used in West Africa beginning in the first millennium C.E.
  • B. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • B. the pyramids of Egypt
Which of the following is a true statement about African building materials during the first millennium of the common era?
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • D. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200
  • A. Stone was increasingly used in West Africa beginning in the first millennium C.E.
  • D. it brought the first islamic traders to central Africa in the first century B.C.E.
The northern area of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, is composed of the greatest desert on earth, the
  • C. savannahs.
  • C. Sahara.
  • A. mansa
  • C. Zagwe
African art
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
  • C. produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.
  • A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
  • D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe
The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was
  • C. Sahara.
  • C. Zagwe
  • D. Axum.
  • A. mansa
Malayan traders and settlers
  • B. May have introduced yams and bananas to Africa.
  • B. it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
  • A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China
  • A. an integration of Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples took place
Karl Mauch found the ruins of
  • D. both b and c
  • D. none of the above
  • B. May have introduced yams and bananas to Africa.
  • C. Great Zimbabwe
Which of the following statements accurately depicts the nature of the African lineage group?
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China
  • B. it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
  • B. the pyramids of Egypt
East African trade
  • A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
  • A. an integration of Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples took place
  • C. employed various musical instruments, including the harp, bells and the xylophone.
Which of the following was not true about the spread of Islam in Africa?
  • A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China
  • A. Stone was increasingly used in West Africa beginning in the first millennium C.E.
  • B. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that
  • A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China
  • B. it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
  • D. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200
  • D. it brought the first islamic traders to central Africa in the first century B.C.E.
The Kingdom of Ghana
  • B. exported gold, leather goods, slaves, and ostrich feathers.
  • B. they usually developed from smaller, fortified walled villages.
  • C. maintained a very active pro-islamic policy under Mansa Musa
  • B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."
A Malay settlement was established on the island of
  • D. some of the world's richest deposits of minerals.
  • D. Bantu
  • A. Madagascar.
  • B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."
Before Islam developed in Africa,
  • A. Luba
  • D. some of the world's richest deposits of minerals.
  • B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."
  • A. Madagascar.
There are San rock paintings discovered in Africa that depict illustrations of ritual ceremonies directed by the village shamans to
  • A. induce rain
  • C. Sahara.
  • A. Madagascar.
  • B. exported gold, leather goods, slaves, and ostrich feathers.
The family of languages spoken by people who inhabit the region of Central Africa south of the Sahara desert is
  • A. Madagascar.
  • A. Luba
  • A. Ghana was the first great commercial state there.
  • D. Bantu
Which of the following states developed in the souther half of Africa?
  • A. Luba
  • B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."
  • A. induce rain
  • B. they usually developed from smaller, fortified walled villages.
The original reason for the rise of the kingdom of Ghana was
  • D. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200
  • C. the middleman role it played in the gold trade between its neighbors who produced it and the Moroccans who distributed it to the Mediterranean world.
  • B. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms
  • B. was an ancient practice that used people for a range of tasks, including military service, agricultural and construction labor, and for domestic and royal servants.
The African country in which prehistoric predecessors of human beings probably first lived in
  • C. Zagwe
  • B. Kenya
  • C. Sahara.
  • D. Axum.
The distinctively carved stone pillars, used to mark the tombs of Axum kings, are known as
  • B. Kenya
  • D. Berbers.
  • C. Sahara.
  • A. stelae.
Music in African societies
  • C. employed various musical instruments, including the harp, bells and the xylophone.
  • C. produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.
  • B. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
  • D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe
The vast grasslands that border the great desert region of the Sahara are known as
  • C. Sahara.
  • C. Zagwe
  • C. savannahs.
  • C. nuclear family.
African culture
  • D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
All of the following was true about the souther African state of Zimbabwe except
  • D. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200
  • B. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
  • C. At one point in time, before it began to dry out, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the
  • B. Niger
  • A. Nok
  • A. mansa
  • C. Zagwe
The following were true about the trans-Saharan caravan trade except
  • C. At one point in time, before it began to dry out, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • D. it brought the first islamic traders to central Africa in the first century B.C.E.
  • B. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
Axum was
  • A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
  • B. originally a colony of the Kingdom of Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula
  • D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
African music
  • C. produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.
  • B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
  • D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe
  • A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
Which of the following statements about the Sahara Desert is true?
  • C. At one point in time, before it began to dry out, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • B. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms
  • A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China
Social practices typical to many African societies included
  • D. both b and c
  • A. mansa
  • E. both a and d
  • D. none of the above
Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that
  • C. At one point in time, before it began to dry out, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.
  • B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
  • B. African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.
  • B. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
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