AFST 235 STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Approximately what percent of Cape Coast's economy derived from the sale of
enslaved people? - ✔✔60%
✔✔The kingdom which overcame its civil war, expanded through the Great Lakes
region, nearly doubling its size over the nineteenth century: - ✔✔Buganda or Rwanda?
✔✔Name the area of the Great Lakes region populated by the Maasai in the 1800s. -
✔✔Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania
✔✔How did the British justify their invasion into Xhosa territory, resulting in the
colonization of the queen Adelaide Province? - ✔✔local British officials exaggerated
these raids to create a pretext for a massive colonial invasion and conquest of the land
between the Keiskamma and Kei rivers, claimed The Fingo were refugees from the
wars of Shaka further up the coast, most were actually local Xhosa people redefined as
a pro-colonial African community
✔✔What was the condition of slavery in the 1870s? - ✔✔During the 1870s, Africa was
on the verge of a major transition. This was the last decade before the start of the
thorough and rapid European conquest of the continent that would mark the beginning
of Africa's era of colonial rule, Whereas the over three centuries of slave exports from
West Africa to the Americas had recently been stopped, the internal African use of slave
labor was increasing, and slave raiding and international slave trading had expanded to
new areas such as East Africa
✔✔The British used the term _________________ to describe the new raw material-
export economy that replaced the slave trade. - ✔✔Legitimate Commerce
✔✔By the end of the Middle Ages, _________ was the dominant religion in North
Africa. - ✔✔Islam
✔✔At the end of the eighteenth century, the discovery of the _____________ enabled
scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs and study ancient Egyptian history. -
✔✔Rosetta Stone
✔✔The _________ language was used for mercantile records, helping to diffuse Islam
along trade routes. - ✔✔Arabic
✔✔Religious scholars belonging to the ________ group started a series of Muslim
revivalist movements in West Africa. - ✔✔Fulani
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Approximately what percent of Cape Coast's economy derived from the sale of
enslaved people? - ✔✔60%
✔✔The kingdom which overcame its civil war, expanded through the Great Lakes
region, nearly doubling its size over the nineteenth century: - ✔✔Buganda or Rwanda?
✔✔Name the area of the Great Lakes region populated by the Maasai in the 1800s. -
✔✔Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania
✔✔How did the British justify their invasion into Xhosa territory, resulting in the
colonization of the queen Adelaide Province? - ✔✔local British officials exaggerated
these raids to create a pretext for a massive colonial invasion and conquest of the land
between the Keiskamma and Kei rivers, claimed The Fingo were refugees from the
wars of Shaka further up the coast, most were actually local Xhosa people redefined as
a pro-colonial African community
✔✔What was the condition of slavery in the 1870s? - ✔✔During the 1870s, Africa was
on the verge of a major transition. This was the last decade before the start of the
thorough and rapid European conquest of the continent that would mark the beginning
of Africa's era of colonial rule, Whereas the over three centuries of slave exports from
West Africa to the Americas had recently been stopped, the internal African use of slave
labor was increasing, and slave raiding and international slave trading had expanded to
new areas such as East Africa
✔✔The British used the term _________________ to describe the new raw material-
export economy that replaced the slave trade. - ✔✔Legitimate Commerce
✔✔By the end of the Middle Ages, _________ was the dominant religion in North
Africa. - ✔✔Islam
✔✔At the end of the eighteenth century, the discovery of the _____________ enabled
scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs and study ancient Egyptian history. -
✔✔Rosetta Stone
✔✔The _________ language was used for mercantile records, helping to diffuse Islam
along trade routes. - ✔✔Arabic
✔✔Religious scholars belonging to the ________ group started a series of Muslim
revivalist movements in West Africa. - ✔✔Fulani
