Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 67

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Mogadishu

• 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.

---

Definitions:

Normal Profits

The level of profit that is necessary to cover the costs of a firm, including the opportunity costs of capital, ensuring the firm remains in business.

Implicit Cost

The opportunity cost equal to what a firm must give up in order to use resources it already owns, without paying rent or purchasing them.

Economic Profits

The difference between a firm's total revenue and its total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs.

Accountants

Professionals responsible for managing and auditing financial records, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal requirements.