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250097828Where in Africa was agriculture first practiced?Nubia0
250097829Who were the Kush replaced by?Axum1
250097830What is correct about the Sahara?from 8000 to 4000 B.C.E. there were lakes, ponds, and grasslands, desertification had begun before 3000 B.C.E, after 3000 B.C.E. the lakes dried up2
250097831Who were the intermediaries who carried goods across the deserts from the Mediterranean to the south in the first millennium?Berbers3
250097832When was Iron in sub-Saharan Africa established?500 CE4
250097833Swahili Culture of East Africamixture of African and Arab5
250097834African religion before Islamthe Ashanti people of Ghana believed in a supreme being called Nyame, pantheism, they shared a belief in the afterlife, there was a belief in a single creator gods, who was often accompanied by many lesser gods6
250097835What happened when Islam arrived in Egypt?a new capital, Cairo, was established7
250097836What was the Christian African kingdom in a Muslim sea called?Ethiopia8
250097837Kilwa"amongst the most beautiful of cities and most elegantly built"9
250097838Why did Islam have an impact on the political system in West Africa?it introduced Arabic as the first written language10
250097839What was the first great commercial state in West Africa?Ghana11
250097840What was the great center of Islamic scholarship in West Africa?Timbuktu12
250097841As the Bantu peoples moved into South Africa, they encountered two Stone Age peoples known as the:Khoi and the San13
250097842Women in Africa?Women often worked in the fields while men tended the cattle or hunted, lineage was matrilinear, they were usually subordinate to men, polygyny was common14
250097843When did slavery begin?In ancient times15
250097844African artwas means of serving religion and the social order16
250097845The most famous stone buildings in sub-Saharan Africa, constructed without mortar like in Inkan Cuzco, are those atGreat Zimbabwe17
250097846Where are churches carved out of solid rock and great carved pillars known as stelae found?Ethiopia18
250097847What is true about Africa?Africa was an active participant in regional global trade with the Mediterranean and across the Indian Ocean at least two millennium before the arrival of the Europeans.19
250097848What is the great divide that seperates the nothern coast from the rest of the African continentSahara Desert20
250097849Who were the people who migrated from the Niger and Congo Rivers into East Africa at the beginning of the second millennium BCEBantus21
250097850What is the Arab name for Norther African coast west of EgyptAl-Maghrib22
250097851Greeks called East Africa "Azania" and the Arabs called itZanj23
250097852What was the "click" language spoken by the Stone Age people called?Khoisan24

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