The Kingdom of Mali

question 33

Multiple Choice

The Kingdom of Mali

• A) profited greatly from the pearl trade.
• B) was sufficiently dry to enable its farmers to grow corn, as well as sorghum and millet.
• C) maintained a very active pro-Islamic policy under Mansa Musa.
• D) rejected Islam in favor of Ethiopian-style Christianity.
• E) disappeared in the fifth century C.E.

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