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Exploring African Journeys: The Ibn Battuta Quiz

Test your knowledge of one of history's greatest travelers, Ibn Battuta, and his remarkable journeys across Africa. This comprehensive quiz dives into his explorations, the civilizations he encountered, and the cultural exchanges that shaped the continent. Whether you're a history buff or just curious, this quiz is for you!

  • 54 engaging questions
  • Multiple choice and checkbox formats
  • Discover fascinating facts about African history
54 Questions14 MinutesCreated by CuriousTraveler512
Which of these did Battuta travel to first?
East Africa
West Africa
Battuta recounts going to each of the following caostal locations EXCEPT
Kilwa
Mogadishu
Juba
Mombasa
The portions of the Ibn Battuta that we read in Ibn Battuta in Black Africa Primarily chronicled his travels in East Africa, West Africa, and Al-Andulus
True
False
When was Ibn Battuta born?
1304
1324
1353
1377
When did Ibn Battuta die?
1304
1324
1353
1377
Ibn Battuta describes his encounter with Sundiata
True
False
Battutas Book of Travels is known by?
Rakara
Rihla
Roamings
Rushid
Ibn Battuta visited this notable civilization?
Mali Empire
Ghana Empire
Great Zimbabwe
Dar Fur
The man who retraced Ibn Battuta's travel in BBC doc. Was a muslim?
True
False
Ibn Battuta was from this country
Tunisia
Algeria
Libya
Morocco
Ibn Battuta was from this city
Tangier
Algiers
Tripoli
Rabat
Was Ibn Battuta a Muslim?
Yes
No
"From the Halls of Montezuma TO the shores of ________, We fight our country's battles in the air, on land, and sea.."
Nairobi
Tripoli
Kumasi
Al-Jazi
Battuta intially set out to do what?
Make the hajj
Visist his father
Meet his arrange wife
Bury his brother in his family's ancestral home
"After two weeks spent securing the town, building a fortess and appointing a new 'puppet' sultan the _____ fleet sailed up the coast to Mombasa."
Spanish
French
Portuguese
English
While Arab writers reffered to the East African coast as Zenj, Greco-Romans called it...
Azania
Amazonia
Congo
Ivoria
The Sabaean Lane was a trading network in/around this body of water
Meditrerranean Sea
Indian Ocean
Lake Victoria Nyanza
Nile River
Most long-distance trade on the Indian Ocean occured in sailing ships known as
Dhows
Biremes
Drekars
Galleons
This word is derived from the Arabic word for coast
Zenj
Jazeera
Swahili
Saba
Ivory, the most coveted African commodity by overseas traders, was obtained from this animal
African Elephant
Nile Perch
African Walrus
African Bison
When Batutta visited East Africa in 1331, the Sultan of KIlwa was conducting a Jihad
True
False
This document was a commercial handbook constructed by a Greek or Roman Shipping agent
Codex Nautilus
Scipio Africanus
Abteilung Swahelium
Periplus Maris Erythraei
The kingdom of Saba- of which the Sabaean Lane gets its name- was located
On the Arabian peninsula
The Indian subcontinent
The Horn of Africa
Modern Kenya
The Swahili coast stretches from
Somalia to Mozambique
Somalia to Kenya
Kenya to Mozambique
Kenya to Tanzania
The arrival of this explorer in 1498 signaled a new era of foreign rule on the East African Coast.
Bartholomew Dias
Vasco da Gama
Afonso de Alburquerque
Martim de Sousa
Which of the following do not belong?
Kilwa
Mogadishu
Mombasa
Cape Town
Realizing their need to control cities on the Northern edges of the East African coast, Europeans constructed this fort, becoming their main E. Africa center
Sao Tome
Maria
Jesus
Paolo
The Portuguese were forced out of power in 1698 by forces from Pate and ___?
Oman
Yemen
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
During colonial era, scholars generally agreed that origins of swahili culture came from Islamic Asia beacuase most were British and were already acquainted with Islamic civilizations in India
True
False
European travelers theorized that _________ migrated to the Lakes region from the north and imposed monarchy unto unconnected agricultural societies.
Caucasoid Hamites
Arabs
Indians
Egyptians
Thiss field of academia generally supported the thesis of caucasoid hamites
Biology
Anthropology
Sociology
Political science
Edith Sanders argued that the Hamitic Hypothesis started to lose steam after
Abolition of transatlantic slavery
Publication of Black Athena
Rise of Nazi Germany
Missionary evangelism in Central and Southern Africa
Afonso famously communicated with the King of Portugal and this figure:
The King of Spain
The Archbishop of Lisbon
The Pope
Queen Nzinga (Njinga)
Like the Swahili Coast, Portuguese relations with Kongo began with military conquest
True
False
While missionaries entered the Kongo with an exclusive idea of Christianity, SPanish missionaries entered the Americas with an inclusive idea of Christianity
True
False
Dom Antonio Manuel was Portuguese
True
False
Queen Njinga was baptized into Christianity at birth
True
False
Njinga was educated by Portuguese missionaries
True
False
Settlers of _____ -a major sugar exporter- wanted to promote local conflicts to incease the slave supply.
Cape Verde
Sao Tome
Comoros
Mauritius
Kongolese did recognize and accept the principal rituals and symbols of Christianity, the custom of taking a _____ ______ in Portuguese was widespread with common and the elite.
Saint's name
Holy Communion
Holy Eucharist
Holy Matrimony
Njinga comic illustrates this city's demographic landscape on page 27.
Cape Town
Kinshasa
Windhoek
Luanda
In one of the most significant moments of Njinga's life she makes ______ assume a chair position so she can sit.
A Portuguese trader
One of her maids
A Portuguese soldier
One of her soldiers
One of the powerpoint slides concerning the Hamitic Hypothesis mentions this evolutionary scholar
Charles Darwin
Thomas Malthus
Melville Herskovits
E. Franklin Frazier
The Portuguese arrived off the West-Central African coast and established diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Congo in the
1580s
1380s
1480s
1680s
"with lightning speed, the Portuguese seized the Ndongo coastral strip and renamed it ____."
Angola
Congo
Uguanda
Tanzania
The crew of the Dutch ship _____ remained at Table Bay to salvage cargo and awaited the arrival of a trading fleet
Haarlem
Brooklyne
Manhaaten
Rotterdam
The Dutch East India Company sent _____ and others to Southern Africa to establish a supply station.
Maarten Vries
Jan van Riebeeck
Hendrick Christiaensen
Jacob Roggeveen
Which city is a famous southern african city establsihed by the DEIC
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Durban
When was Cape Town established?
1458
1558
1658
1758
 
Slavery ended in South Africa before slavery ended in the US
True
False
 
 
 
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