African History Quiz

Can you answer these questions about the history of africa?

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Last updated: March 15, 2019

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Big tomb structures build in ancient Egypt	Pyramids
Ancient Sudanese kingdom	Kush
People group, which migrated from Cameroon to large parts of southern Africa	Bantu
Rival city of Rome located in Tunisia	Carthage
Famous General from that city in the 2. Punic War	Hannibal Barca
King of Mali and one of the richest persons of all times	Mansa Musa
Niger River empire, which conquered large parts of the Mali Empire	Songhai
Import center of scholarship in this empire	Timbuktu
Powerful medieval kingdom centered in the Chad Basin	Kanem
Scholar from Morocco, who visited many countries in the 14.Century	Ibn Battuta

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Country which was ruled by the Solomonid Dynasty from 1270 to 1974	Ethiopia
Last Emperor of this Dynasty	Haile Selassie
First European nation to explore and colonize Africa	Portugal
Name for Dutch settlers in South Africa	Boers
Belgian king responsible for the slaugthering of millions in the Congo	Leopold II
International conference discussing the partition of Africa between colonial powers	Berlin Conference
Year of Africa, where large parts were decolonized	1960
Country, where the Mau Mau Uprising took place	Kenya
Name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1971 and 1997	Zaire
First black president of South Africa	Nelson Mandela