Your answer should be a minimum of 1500 words total for all of the questions.
CHAPTER 8: EASTERN AFRICA TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
Question 1:
Assess the importance of Christianity in the medieval kingdom of Ethiopia.
Question 2:
Discuss the role of trade in the Muslim penetration of the horn of Africa between the tenth and fourteenth centuries.
OR
Account for the changing balance of power between Christian Ethiopia and the Muslim states of the Horn of Africa between 1300 and 1560 CE
Question 3:
What were the main changes that developed in the societies of the east African interior with the coming of the Later Iron Age? How significant and reliable is the archaeological evidence as an indication of social and economic change in this period?