Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 19

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Bantu

• A)Speakers of this African language living south and east of the Congo River.
• B)The African region surrounded by the Sahara, the Gulf of Guinea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the mountains of Ethiopia.
• C)North African peoples who controlled the caravan trade between the Mediterranean and the Sudan.
• D)A Muslim port city in East Africa founded between the eighth and tenth centuries; today it is the capital of Somalia.
• E)African collectives bound together by ethnic or blood ties rather than by being political territories.
• F)From the word for "war chief," the name of a large and influential African kingdom inhabited by the Soninke people.
• G)The city in which the king of Ghana held his court.
• H)Originally a campsite for desert nomads, it grew into a thriving city under Mansa Musa, king of Mali and Africa's most famous ruler.
• I)A kingdom in northwestern Ethiopia that was a sizable trading state and the center of Christian culture.
• J)The East African coastal culture, named after a Bantu language whose vocabulary and poetic forms exhibit strong Arabic influences.
• K)The most powerful city on the east coast of Africa by the late thirteenth century.
• L)A ruined southern African city discovered by a German explorer in 1871; it is considered the most impressive monument south of the Nile Valley and Ethiopian highlands.

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Definitions:

Return On Total Assets

A financial ratio that measures a company's profitability relative to its total assets, indicating how effectively the company uses its assets to generate profit.

Return On Equity

A financial ratio indicating the profitability of a firm relative to shareholder equity, showing how effectively equity is used to generate profits.

Gross Margin

The difference between sales revenue and the cost of goods sold, indicating the profitability of a product or service.

Net Profit Margin

A financial metric expressing the percentage of revenue that remains as profit after all operating and non-operating expenses have been deducted.