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JAMB History questions: The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate

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  1. Question 1· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The jihad was carried into the Adamawa area by

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  2. Question 2· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Sokoto town was founded in 1809 by

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  3. Question 3· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Ilorin became a Fulani emirate under the Sokoto Caliphate when power passed from Afonja to

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  4. Question 4· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The first Fulani emir of Zaria (Zazzau) after the jihad was

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  5. Question 5· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto (1804) was

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  6. Question 6· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Uthman dan Fodio's brother, who later ruled the western emirates from Gwandu, was

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  7. Question 7· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The leaders of the Sokoto Jihad were mainly

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  8. Question 8· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The town of Sokoto, later the capital of the caliphate, was founded in 1809 by

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  9. Question 9· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The jihad's leaders justified it as a struggle against

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  10. Question 10· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    Ilorin became an emirate after

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  11. Question 11· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The ruler of each emirate within the Sokoto Caliphate was called the

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  12. Question 12· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The scholar who led Borno's resistance to the Sokoto jihadists was

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  13. Question 13· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Caliphate was administered through

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  14. Question 14· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    After the jihad, the eastern part of the caliphate was ruled from Sokoto by Muhammad Bello, while the western part was ruled from Gwandu by

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  15. Question 15· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Jihad was launched in 1804 by

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  16. Question 16· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    A political effect of the jihad was

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  17. Question 17· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    One cause of the Sokoto Jihad was the

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  18. Question 18· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    In 1804 Uthman dan Fodio and his followers made their hijra from Degel to

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  19. Question 19· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sultan of Sokoto bears the title

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  20. Question 20· The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate· JAMB

    The Sokoto Jihad began as a conflict between Uthman dan Fodio and the ruler of

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