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Question #1
Who supplied the labor on the royal farms of Songhai?
A.   War captives
B.   Indentured servants
C.   Tax debtors
D.   Slaves
Question #2
Which of these was true of the black population of eighteenth-century London?
A.   Most black Londoners were agricultural laborers.
B.   Most black Londoners were well-educated freemen.
C.   Most black Londoners were sailors or personal servants.
D.   Most black Londoners were merchants and traders.
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 continued to provide the independent Swahili city-states with money.
C.   They benefited the inland gold mines of Sofala by opening new markets.
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 argued that prisoners of war could be sold and that captured people were chattel.
B.   They believed slavery was necessary for economic development.
C.   They argued that Africans were an inferior race who were better off as slaves.
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.   Camels
C.   Slaves
D.   Donkey caravans
Question #6
Swahili independence ended with the arrival in 1498 of which Portuguese explorer?
A.   Vasco da Gama
B.   Giovanni da Verrazzano
C.   Ferdinand Magellan
D.   Prince Henry the Navigator
Question #7
By the eleventh century, what important change had the Swahili peoples made?
A.   They established a large inland empire.
B.   They developed trade with Portugal.
C.   They converted to Islam.
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.   Yellow fever
D.   Hookworm
Question #9
What West African industry had the greatest level of specialization?
A.   Salt mining
B.   Textiles
C.   Iron working
D.   Gold working
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 laid the foundation for European colonies.
C.   It led to wars that destabilized the political structure of many states.
D.   It hastened the Christianization of the sub-Sahara.
Question #11
Who were the nhara?
A.   Female slaves taken as concubines by their owners
B.   Dahomey slave raiders
C.   People of mixed African and European heritage
D.   Women slave merchants in Guinea
Question #12
Between 1690 and 1807, which European nation was the leading participant in the transatlantic slave trade?
A.   France
B.   England
C.   Spain
D.   Portugal
Question #13
How were chattel slaves viewed?
A.   They had the right to inherit land and wealth.
B.   They were commodities that were considered subhuman property.
C.   Most were considered to be members of the owner's family.
D.   Usually, they were slaves who had status and power.
Question #14
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who did the elite of Mali and Benin import to be slaves?
A.   Berber women
B.   Songhai warriors
C.   Slavic women
D.   Yoruba children
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.   Transatlantic slave trade
D.   Artistic creativity
Question #16
In the stateless societies of Senegambia, which of the following contributed to community loyalty and law enforcement?
A.   Strong, patriarchal clans
B.   Communitywide assemblies
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.   Jesuits
B.   Benedictines
C.   Franciscans
D.   Dominicans

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