East African Trade

question 9

Multiple Choice

East African trade

• A) was exclusively oriented through the Nile to the Mediterranean.
• B) provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
• C) maintained a strictly coastal exchange between African cultures only.
• D) was mainly with Madagascar.
• E) was dominated by Christian merchants from Constantinople.

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