Which of the following was not true about the spread of Islam in Africa?
a. It achieved only limited success in the mountains of Ethiopia.
b. It interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
c. Its concepts of egalitarianism and polygamy had great appeal among the common people.
d. A different and distinctly African form of the religion developed, as local religious practices replaced basic Islamic ones.
e. It had considerable success in both West Africa and in East Africa
Question 2
Before Islam developed in Africa,
a. most of the continent, aside from Egypt and Axum, did not have organized religions.
b. most African societies already had well-developed systems of religious belief.
c. the Ashanti worshiped a supreme god, Siva.
d. all Africans were agnostics.
e. Christianity had a strong presence in the far south of the continent.
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