Tippu Tib, Whose Real Name Was Hamed Bin Mohammed Al-Murjibi

question 10

Multiple Choice

Tippu Tib, whose real name was Hamed bin Mohammed al-Murjibi, spread his control over large parts of Africa near Zanzibar.What was his method of using Africans from the interior to gain vast personal wealth?

• A) He had the natives of the interior carry ivory from elephant tusks to the coast to sell and then sold the people who carried the ivory into slavery, also.
• B) He pitted the Boers against the British and sold goods to both sides of the warring nations in their conflicts for colonial control of Africa.
• C) He helped the Zulus in their fight against the African kingdom of Great Zimbabwe and was rewarded by the winners of that war.
• D) He made his fortune by selling Islamic art, religious icons, and books to the new converts of Islam along the Swahili coast and in southern Arabia.
• E) He helped the poor and other members of society who needed assistance in the highly competitive economic areas where the rich got richer and poor got poorer.

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