AcaDec Social Science

What are the Nile river's major tributaries?

Who was the most famous ruler of Mali after Sundiata?

What does Fustat mean?

Why were mountains not usually a barrier to human contact?

When did Britain ban slavery within the Gold Coast?

What religion did Mansa Musa promote?

What British historian believed in and employed Ibn Khaldwn's ideas?

Around what time did Ibn Battuta visit the Swahili coast?

What visitor of Africa provided written records of the African societies encountered in 1352-3?

Approximately how many ethnic groups lived across Africa?

"Swahili" derives from the Arabic word meaning...?

When did Ghana fall for the last time?

Which empire rose to power beginning with the imperial policies of its founding king Sonni Ali?

What did the European populace use molasses for?

What person enraged Africanists in 1963 after claiming Eurocentric views on BBC?

What ethnic group took on clicking sounds from the Khoisan people they conquered?

Define Ma'at:

Who was the most famous Muslim historian?

What is a way to communicate with the spirit world in African culture?

When was the Sanageti war?

What was the Nile Delta known as in "ancient history"?

When did the Portuguese deliver their first cargo of West African slaves to Lisbon?

What is ebony?

What plantation was home to equatorial pathogens to which the Portuguese had little resistance?

What eventually forced the Muslims to migrate to Yathrib in 622?

When was the Yaa Asante Waa war?

How many miles is the Nile River?

What ancient philosopher believed slavery was the natural order of existence?

Who is the Egyptian raven god?

When did slaves attempt to burn New York City?

Who is considered to be the "Marco Polo" of Islam?

How many square miles does Africa contain?

Approximately how many languages are spoken in Africa?

What do Ethiopian Christians "believe that they possess" ?

What is the world's tenth longest river?

When did the Golden Age of Athens take place?

The Mande are spread across how many African countries?

What religion included the idea of Predestination?

What do historians consider the starting point for urban civilization?

What is the name of the world's largest pyramid?

When did Parliament ban British slave trading with all nations?

Who seized power of Songhay one year after king Sonni Ali died in a coup?

How many castles did Europeans build on the West African coast for transatlantic slave trade?

When was centralized authority restored with the foundation of the Middle Kingdom?

How long is the Congo-Zaire?

What is an arquebus?

What type of food were priests forbidden to consume?

When did the Atlantic slave trade formally end?

What are stories about Muhammad's life called?

Who expressed objections to the Atlantic slave trade ban in 1820?

According to tradition, when did St. Mark introduce Christianity into Egypt?

What is Muslim sacred literature called?

What is the largest West African ethnic group of Muslims?

When did the Dutch take Elmma Castle from the Portuguese?

Who stated the development of commerce/social mobility was linked to the growth of slavery?

How many countries are in Africa?

What carved stone tablet led historians to conclude Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt?

When did Alexander of Macedonia bring Egypt under his rule?

What did the French call regions of Africa that they divided?

Who did the Soninke merchants buy gold from?

In the 5th century BC what Greek historian described the diet of people living along the Nile?

What two countries controlled approximately 75% of Africa after 1918?

What does Medira mean?

Who did Sundiata defeat at the Battle of Krina in 1235?

At which conference were the boundary lines for African colonies drawn?

What is a Moor?

Where was Songhay's center of power?

Define Levant:

What does Mali mean?

What was Egypt's first centralized government called?

What person published the influential anti-slavery tract Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade?

Who was believed to be the leader of Upper Egypt that led Lower Egypt to be conquered?

Who founded the first British anti-slavery society in 1783?

What direction does the Nile River flow?

How many distinct regions does the Nile River have?

Define ummah:

What did the Arab conquerors of the 7th century refer to the African region as?

When did the Spanish carry their first enslaved human cargo from West Africa to the Caribbean?

What is the process of adopting culture called?

What two religions had the greatest impact on Africa?

Define sufi:

What group named themselves after Muhammad's daughter?

By what year had Brazil become the greatest sugar producer in the world?

Define Muezzin:

What did Nana Asma'u spend her life doing?

Where was the Fatmid Caliphate's capital established?

From 1450-1500, approximately how many slaves did the Portuguese import each year?

What specific plant was said to be grown in Zanzibar on plantations in the late 18th century?

When did slaves attempt to burn Boston?

Define jujis:

What act abolished Atlantic slave trade in the British empire?

What major West African ethnic group participated in the slave trade?

What was the smallest British territorial division called?

What are pastoralists?

What was the name of Muhammed's uncle?

How many manifestations of gods/goddesses did Mecca's rectangular shrine of the Ka'bah house?

What is a dhow?

Which of the following was a Ghanaian export?

Who created the idea of The Golden Stool?

What is the name of Africa's second oldest mosque and oldest university?

Define Tawdid:

What are dromedaries?

What percentage of Muslims in the world are Sunni?

What product is derived from sorghum?

Where was the Portuguese plantation model first established?

Who is Menelik I traditionally considered to be the son of?

How many slaves were forcibly transported to the Americans to work in sugar production?

Approximately how much of the world's population is Muslim?

Africa contains about how much of the world's land mass?

Who owned land in traditional Africa?

How many porters were in Mansa Musa's haji caravan?

Which of the following countries has a population that is largely Shia?

As Muslims advanced west across North America in the early 700's, what did they do?

What two sects did Muslims split into?

What does Gye Nyame translate to?