Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
In what areas did the Kingdom of Mali develop most during the fourteenth century under
King Mansa Musa. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Islamic learning, trade and architecture
The West Africa Squadron was responsible for what during the ending of Trans-Atlantic slave
trade. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔seizing ships involved in slave trade to abolishing of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade while patrolling the west coast of Africa
Identify the name of West African Kingdom that used Islam as a Unifying force - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Songhay empire
in what modern country was the city-sate of Kilwa located? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Southern Tanzania
The largest demand for slave labor was from what type of plantation economy. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Cloves
Name the founder of the Kingdom of Mali. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Sunjata of the Keita
Clan
How widespread was the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Most of Africa did not experience the economic, social, agricultural, turmoil.
W Africa had demographic loss, political disruption, and decline in textile ind. 10 million
slaves were traded
The so-called 'Slave Coast' of Africa is the coast of what modern day country? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Nigeria
Name evidence for the massive scale of the slave trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- ships' logs and cargo manifests
- Oral history
- Records of slave auction transactions