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Question #1
Who supplied the labor on the royal farms of Songhai?
A.   Indentured servants
B.   Slaves
C.   War captives
D.   Tax debtors
Question #2
Which of these was true of the black population of eighteenth-century London?
A.   Most black Londoners were merchants and traders.
B.   Most black Londoners were agricultural laborers.
C.   Most black Londoners were sailors or personal servants.
D.   Most black Londoners were well-educated freemen.
Question #3
What important role did the Portuguese forts and markets at Kilwa, Zanzibar, and Sofala have?
A.   They represented the merging of Portuguese and Swahili trade powers.
B.   They benefited the inland gold mines of Sofala by opening new markets.
C.   They continued to provide the independent Swahili city-states with money.
D.   They became the foundation of Portuguese economic power on the Swahili coast.
Question #4
What was the justification for slavery adopted by African rulers that originated from Islamic societies?
A.   They believed slavery was necessary for economic development.
B.   They argued that Africans were an inferior race who were better off as slaves.
C.   They argued that prisoners of war could be sold and that captured people were chattel.
D.   They rationalized it by saying slaves lacked immortal souls.
Question #5
What was the chief means of transport for the West African salt trade?
A.   Horse-drawn carts
B.   Donkey caravans
C.   Slaves
D.   Camels
Question #6
Swahili independence ended with the arrival in 1498 of which Portuguese explorer?
A.   Vasco da Gama
B.   Prince Henry the Navigator
C.   Ferdinand Magellan
D.   Giovanni da Verrazzano
Question #7
By the eleventh century, what important change had the Swahili peoples made?
A.   They developed trade with Portugal.
B.   They converted to Islam.
C.   They established a large inland empire.
D.   The majority had become full-time farmers.
Question #8
Which of these was the greatest killer in West Africa?
A.   Malaria
B.   Typhoid
C.   Hookworm
D.   Yellow fever
Question #9
What West African industry had the greatest level of specialization?
A.   Salt mining
B.   Gold working
C.   Iron working
D.   Textiles
Question #10
Scholars have determined that the transatlantic slave trade had what effect on African societies?
A.   It led to technological development because of population decline.
B.   It hastened the Christianization of the sub-Sahara.
C.   It led to wars that destabilized the political structure of many states.
D.   It laid the foundation for European colonies.
Question #11
Who were the nhara?
A.   People of mixed African and European heritage
B.   Dahomey slave raiders
C.   Women slave merchants in Guinea
D.   Female slaves taken as concubines by their owners
Question #12
Between 1690 and 1807, which European nation was the leading participant in the transatlantic slave trade?
A.   Portugal
B.   England
C.   France
D.   Spain
Question #13
How were chattel slaves viewed?
A.   They were commodities that were considered subhuman property.
B.   Usually, they were slaves who had status and power.
C.   Most were considered to be members of the owner's family.
D.   They had the right to inherit land and wealth.
Question #14
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who did the elite of Mali and Benin import to be slaves?
A.   Yoruba children
B.   Slavic women
C.   Songhai warriors
D.   Berber women
Question #15
In the fifteenth century, Kano and Katsina in Hausaland became centers for which of the following?
A.   African-style feudalism
B.   Islamic scholarship
C.   Artistic creativity
D.   Transatlantic slave trade
Question #16
In the stateless societies of Senegambia, which of the following contributed to community loyalty and law enforcement?
A.   Communitywide assemblies
B.   Strong, patriarchal clans
C.   Gender-specific roles
D.   Age-grade systems
Question #17
What missionary group attempted to introduce Roman Catholicism into Ethiopia in the sixteenth century?
A.   Franciscans
B.   Jesuits
C.   Benedictines
D.   Dominicans

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