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

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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 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· WAEC

    Christian missionaries contributed to Nigeria by

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

    Henry Venn of the CMS promoted

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

    Mary Slessor is remembered for

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

    An effect of European missionary activity in Nigeria was

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

    The trans-Saharan trade brought to West Africa

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

    The Portuguese first reached Benin in the late

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

    An effect of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa was

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

    The Church Missionary Society established a station at Abeokuta in

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

    Christian missionaries in Nigeria contributed mainly by

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

    The main item imported into West Africa through the trans-Saharan trade was

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  12. Question 12· 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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  13. Question 13· External influences: trade, Islam and Europeans· WAEC

    The first Europeans to reach the coast of West Africa by sea were the

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

    The main commodity carried south across the Sahara to West Africa was

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

    Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire by law in

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

    The Portuguese first reached Benin in about

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

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

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

    The Church Missionary Society (CMS) first established itself in Nigeria at

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

    The first Europeans to reach the coast of Nigeria were the

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

    The Niger Expedition of 1841 aimed to

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