Early African Kingdoms & Traditional African Society (3)

Early African Kingdoms
& Traditional African Society (3)

Select the correct choice


1	Which represents the BEST statement about African culture?:
		it is impossible to classify African culture because there are so many individual differences between counties, tribes and regions.
		the culture of Africa suffers from a lack of modern technology.
		African culture reflects a seriousness, a calmness and a sense of inner direction not found in American culture.
		African culture is primitive, barbaric, and backward but interesting.


2	The mixing of Bantu and Arabic cultures resulted in the?:
		Bantu migrations.
		development of Swahili.
		spread of iron smelting.
		rise of Zimbabwe.


3	This African kingdom conquered Egypt in the 8^c B. C. E.?:
		Kush.
		Axum.
		Ghana.
		Zimbabwe.


4	East African city-states grew wealthy through?:
		plantation agriculture.
		manufacturing.
		trade.
		military conquest.


5	Which of the following are correctly paired together?:
		Ife -- rock painting.
		Nok -- lost-wax process.
		Bushmen -- terra cotta figurines.
		Benin -- bronze heads.


6	The kingdom of Ethiopia is distinctive in Africa for its?:
		abolition of the slave trade.
		conversion to Coptic Christianity.
		weak central government.
		early conversion to Islam.


7	What is the main reason the city-states of East Africa became multicultural?:
		Arab and Persian traders settled in the city-states.
		the gold trade made them rich.
		African traders sailed to the Arabian Peninsula.
		iron from the city-states became widely used in the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia.


8	Great Zimbabwe was the?:
		military leader who unified the Khoisan people.
		great temple in Timbuktu.
		capital of a vast empire in south Africa.
		military and economic alliance of the city-states of East Africa.


9	Axum prospered partly because it had a port on the?:
		Red Sea.
		Atlantic Ocean.
		Mediterranean Sea.
		Zambezi River.


10	The Nok culture was among the earliest to?:
		establish trading centers in the Mediterranean.
		master the art of iron working.
		establish a unified government for most of Africa.
		conquer neighboring tribes.


11	The Bantu states became rich because?:
		they controlled the trade routes from the gold mines to the sea.
		they built the Great Zimbabwe.
		they traded with European explorers.
		they conquered the Karanga kingdom.


12	People of the East African coastal towns who practiced various animistic religions were eventually converted to?:
		the worship of Ahimsa.
		Christianity.
		Judaism.
		Islam.