African History in the Mid-1800s Quiz

Powerful African armies

Disease and lack of trade networks

Rapids, cataracts, and changing flows in African rivers (correct)

African peoples' conversion to Islam or Christianity

European control of the continent's land

Steam-powered riverboats (correct)

Political range of African ethnic groups

Established contacts with sub-Saharan Africans

Conversion of African peoples to Christianity

Introduction of European trade networks

European travel into the interior was virtually impossible

Europeans had established contacts with sub-Saharan Africans

Powerful African armies kept the Europeans out of most of Africa

Europeans had control over African trade networks

Europeans controlled only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mainly on the coast (correct)

<p>Disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Traditional beliefs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some followed traditional beliefs, while others converted to Islam or Christianity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They spoke more than 1,000 different languages</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability to navigate African rivers due to rapids, cataracts, and changing flows</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Europeans controlled only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mainly on the coast</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disease</p> Signup and view all the answers