AFST 235 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What evidence indicate trade between peoples in Southern Africa and the Indian
Ocean? - ✔✔Monsoon wind patterns, dhow ships, textiles, silk, beads, glass, and
ceramics were traded
✔✔Name the oldest civilization in Africa. - ✔✔Egypt
✔✔Identify the kingdom that boasted powerful queens wielding power? - ✔✔Buganda
✔✔What evidence provides the existence of the kingdom of Axum by the late third
century CE? - ✔✔minted coins
✔✔What trade accompanied the slave trade as it expanded dramatically in nineteenth-
century East Africa? - ✔✔Ivory
✔✔How widespread was the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa? - ✔✔It
constrained the economic development of most African states
✔✔Name evidence for the massive scale of the slave trade during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. - ✔✔Ships' logs and cargo manifests
✔✔Identify all the major problems for the Xhosa during colonization in the mid-
nineteenth century? - ✔✔Fought trekboers over land and livestock, went to war (Cape-
Xhosa war) 3 times
✔✔Name the European country that exported the largest number of enslaved Africans
during the eighteenth century. - ✔✔Britain
✔✔What trading commodity became the most important export of the Trans-Saharan
trade network? - ✔✔Gold
✔✔What crop fundamentally improved the food supply and encouraged population
growth in the Great Lakes area? - ✔✔banana
✔✔Which Sahel kingdom covered the largest geographical area (map will be provided).
- ✔✔Songhay
✔✔In what modern country were the Hausa kingdoms located? - ✔✔Northern Nigeria
✔✔Identify ways that Benin rulers centralized their power. - ✔✔King Ewedo reduced the
power of Benin's nobles and reformed the army by introducing new weapons like
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What evidence indicate trade between peoples in Southern Africa and the Indian
Ocean? - ✔✔Monsoon wind patterns, dhow ships, textiles, silk, beads, glass, and
ceramics were traded
✔✔Name the oldest civilization in Africa. - ✔✔Egypt
✔✔Identify the kingdom that boasted powerful queens wielding power? - ✔✔Buganda
✔✔What evidence provides the existence of the kingdom of Axum by the late third
century CE? - ✔✔minted coins
✔✔What trade accompanied the slave trade as it expanded dramatically in nineteenth-
century East Africa? - ✔✔Ivory
✔✔How widespread was the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa? - ✔✔It
constrained the economic development of most African states
✔✔Name evidence for the massive scale of the slave trade during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. - ✔✔Ships' logs and cargo manifests
✔✔Identify all the major problems for the Xhosa during colonization in the mid-
nineteenth century? - ✔✔Fought trekboers over land and livestock, went to war (Cape-
Xhosa war) 3 times
✔✔Name the European country that exported the largest number of enslaved Africans
during the eighteenth century. - ✔✔Britain
✔✔What trading commodity became the most important export of the Trans-Saharan
trade network? - ✔✔Gold
✔✔What crop fundamentally improved the food supply and encouraged population
growth in the Great Lakes area? - ✔✔banana
✔✔Which Sahel kingdom covered the largest geographical area (map will be provided).
- ✔✔Songhay
✔✔In what modern country were the Hausa kingdoms located? - ✔✔Northern Nigeria
✔✔Identify ways that Benin rulers centralized their power. - ✔✔King Ewedo reduced the
power of Benin's nobles and reformed the army by introducing new weapons like
