Economic Activities and Growth of States
History · 50 practice questions
Agriculture (hunting, farming, fishing, animal husbandry and horticulture); industries (pottery, salt-making, iron-smelting, blacksmithing, leather-working, wood-carving, cloth-making, dyeing and food processing); trade and trade routes (local, regional, long-distance, including trans-Sahara trade); expansion of states.
- Identify the various economic activities of the people.
- Differentiate the economic activities and specialties of the people.
- Relate trade and other economic activities to the growth of the states.
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- Practice question 1
Markets in the pre-1800 Nigeria area often served purposes beyond trade, functioning also as important
- A.Military training grounds exclusively
- B.Social and political meeting points
- C.Colonial administrative centres
- D.Purely religious shrines with no other role
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B. Social and political meeting points
These markets often functioned also as important social and political meeting points.
- Practice question 2
In parts of the Islamized north, trade contracts and commercial disputes were sometimes regulated according to principles drawn from
- A.Purely oral custom with no formal framework
- B.European contract law
- C.Islamic legal tradition
- D.Colonial common law, before 1800
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C. Islamic legal tradition
These contracts and disputes were sometimes regulated according to principles drawn from Islamic legal tradition.
- Practice question 3
Cloth-making and dyeing were particularly notable traditional industries associated with
- A.Coastal fishing communities only
- B.Kano and other Hausa towns
- C.Benin exclusively
- D.The Niger Delta exclusively
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B. Kano and other Hausa towns
These industries were particularly notable in Kano and other Hausa towns.
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- Early Centres of Civilization
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- Kanem-Borno
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