Emperor Menelik II defeated Italian troops in the battle of
Adwa
Mfecane
Kiriji
None of the above
Correct answer is A
The Battle of Adwa was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force.
Who established the Tukulor empire?
Cedric Senghor
Mohammad Ali
Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar
None of the above
Correct answer is C
Tukulor empire, Tukulor also spelled Tukolor, or Toucouleur, Muslim theocracy that flourished in the 19th century in western Africa from Senegal eastward to Timbuktu (Tombouctou). The founder of the empire is Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar.
In what century did the Trans-Saharan trade start?
8th century
5th century
17th century
4th century
Correct answer is A
Around the fifth century, thanks to the availability of the camel, Berber-speaking people began crossing the Sahara Desert. From the eighth century onward, annual trade caravans followed routes later described by Arabic authors with minute attention to detail.
The Great Trek happened in what country?
South Africa
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Egypt
Correct answer is A
Great Trek, Afrikaans Groot Trek, the emigration of some 12,000 to 14,000 Boers from Cape Colony in South Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s, in rebellion against the policies of the British government and in search of fresh pasturelands.
Nigeria was birthed in the year
1900
1906
1914
1960
Correct answer is C
On January 1, 1914, Lord Frederick Lugard, the governor of both the Northern Nigeria Protectorate and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, signed a document consolidating the two, thereby creating the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Forty-six years later in 1960, Nigeria became an independent state.