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All topicsBritish conquest of Nigeria · 38Colonial administration in Nigeria · 36Decolonisation and African unity · 40Early centres of civilisation · 37Eastern and southern Africa · 35External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans · 38Kanem-Borno and the Hausa states · 41Nationalism and independence · 40Nigeria since independence · 44Oyo, Benin and the southern states · 44Partition, colonial rule and resistance in Africa · 34Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century · 36The colonial economy · 37The Nigeria area: land and early peoples · 36The Sokoto Jihad and caliphate · 38West Africa in the nineteenth century · 36

  1. Question 141· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    Nok terracotta sculptures are mostly

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  2. Question 142· Early centres of civilisation· JAMB

    The traditional ruler of Ile-Ife is the

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  3. Question 143· Early centres of civilisation· JAMB

    The ruler of the Nri kingdom bore the title

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  4. Question 144· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    Archaeology helps historians mainly by

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  5. Question 145· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    The Songhai empire was destroyed after the Battle of Tondibi in 1591 by

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  6. Question 146· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    Mansa Musa ruled the empire of

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  7. Question 147· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    The Benin Moat (Iya) was built mainly for

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  8. Question 148· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    Igbo-Ukwu bronzes were made by the

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  9. Question 149· Early centres of civilisation· JAMB

    The Igbo-Ukwu bronzes were excavated in 1959–60 by

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  10. Question 150· Early centres of civilisation· JAMB

    Sungbo's Eredo is

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  11. Question 151· Early centres of civilisation· WAEC

    Ife art is famous for its

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  12. Question 152· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The title 'Kabaka' belongs to the ruler of

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  13. Question 153· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Great Zimbabwe ruins are famous for their

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  14. Question 154· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Zanzibar became an important nineteenth-century centre of

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  15. Question 155· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Great Trek of the 1830s was the movement of

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  16. Question 156· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    Apartheid in South Africa officially ended with the elections of

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  17. Question 157· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    The Mfecane in southern Africa is associated mainly with the rise of the Zulu under

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  18. Question 158· Eastern and southern Africa· WAEC

    The Mau Mau uprising took place in

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  19. Question 159· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    Moshoeshoe founded the kingdom of the

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  20. Question 160· Eastern and southern Africa· JAMB

    In the nineteenth century Zanzibar was a major centre of the trade in

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