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JAMB History questions: External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans

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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 20Colonial administration in Nigeria · 18Decolonisation and African unity · 21Early centres of civilisation · 19Eastern and southern Africa · 18External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 20Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 21Nationalism and independence · 20Nigeria since independence · 26Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 23Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 17Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 18The colonial economy · 19The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 19The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 20West Africa in the nineteenth century · 19

  1. Question 1· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The fort of Elmina on the Gold Coast was built in 1482 by the

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  2. Question 2· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Henry Venn of the CMS promoted

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  3. Question 3· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Mary Slessor is remembered for

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  4. Question 4· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    An effect of European missionary activity in Nigeria was

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  5. Question 5· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Church Missionary Society established a station at Abeokuta in

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  6. Question 6· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Islam became the religion of the royal court of Kanem in the eleventh century under Mai

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  7. Question 7· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire by law in

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  8. Question 8· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Portuguese first reached Benin in about

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  9. Question 9· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Fourah Bay College, an important centre of education for West Africans, was in

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  10. Question 10· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Niger Expedition of 1841 aimed to

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  11. Question 11· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The main export from West Africa across the Sahara in the medieval period was

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  12. Question 12· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Islam first spread into the Nigeria area mainly through

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  13. Question 13· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Church of Scotland Mission was established in

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  14. Question 14· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Hope Waddell Training Institution in Calabar was founded in 1895 by the

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  15. Question 15· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Goods carried southwards across the Sahara to West Africa in the trans-Saharan trade included

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  16. Question 16· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Methodist mission first arrived at Badagry in 1842 under

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  17. Question 17· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The first Europeans to reach the coast of the Nigeria area in the fifteenth century were the

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  18. Question 18· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    A major export carried north across the Sahara from West Africa was

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  19. Question 19· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    Manillas were

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  20. Question 20· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· JAMB

    The Royal Niger Company's monopoly on the Niger was resented mainly by

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