The Benin Kingdom

Question 1

How long was the earthen moat around the city?

Accepted Answer

16,000km

Question 2

What year did the Portuguese arrive in the Benin Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

1472 AD

Question 3

Europeans struggled to believe how African craftsmen made such impressive works of art.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Where were the majority of slaves sold to?

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The Americas

Question 5

In 1897 British soldiers travelled to Benin and..

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stole and destroyed their artwork.

Question 6

What year was the slave trade abolished in Britain?

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1807

Question 7

Who were the first Europeans to visit the Benin Kingdom?

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The Portuguese

Question 8

Guilds were...

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where people who did the same craft lived and worked together.

Question 9

Who came from rich families and passed their jobs down from father to son?

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Palace chiefs

Question 10

Oba Ewuare was known as...

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Ewuare the Great

Question 11

Who governed the ordinary people and helped to run the provinces?

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Town chiefs

Question 12

Who was the first Oba of Benin?

Accepted Answer

Ewuare

Question 13

The Benin Kingdom was located in which modern country?

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Nigeria

Question 14

Who worked closely with the Oba?

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King-makers

Question 15

What would the Benin people do with manila bracelets?

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Melt them down and make them into plaques.

Question 16

What were Britain's most valuable colonies?

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Sugar colonies

Question 17

Who made the final decisions?

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Oba

Question 18

Benin artwork is still displayed in...

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The British Museum

Question 19

Which import would be used as money?

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Cowrie shells

Question 20

The people of Benin were...

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polytheistic (worshiped many gods)

Questions 20