Statistics for Empires of Africa

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Started in one of the cradles of civilization, lasted from for over 3000 years	Egypt	100%
The king's pilgrimage to Mecca was so lavish it caused inflation	Mali	86%
Under Menelik II, this was one of the only empires to avoid European colonization	Ethiopia	83%
Home to legends such as Hannibal and Queen Dido	Carthage	78%
Britain's greatest defeat against a native African force was with them during the colonization of South Africa	Zulu	78%
Christian kingdom which was a repeated enemy of Portugal in Angola	Kongo	61%
Empire which grew from the Trans-Saharan trade of salt and gold during the 1200s	Ghana	58%
This sultanate was the first nation to recognize the United States	Morocco	53%
In the early 1800s, this sultanate was united with Oman	Zanzibar	50%
Their sack of Rome gives us a word meaning "destruction or damage to public or private property"	Vandals	47%
Bantu kingdom with a Tutsi ruling class founded in the 15th century	Rwanda	44%
Took advantage of the fall of the above to create the largest empire in West African history	Songhai	42%
Empire near modern Eritrea home to a monumental obelisk	Aksum	28%
Group of kingdoms in Nigeria whose descendants make up 86 million people across West Africa	Hausa	28%
Trans-Saharan trading empire based around Lake Chad	Kanem	22%
The most successfully empire of Nubia, eventually controlling the Northern half of the Nile	Kush	22%
Successor of the above in the late 1300s	Bornu	19%
In 1976 they changed the word "republic" in their name to "empire. In 1979 it changed back	Central African Empire	19%
Islamic Caliphate who traced their ancestry to Muhammad's daughter	{Fatimid} Caliphate	17%
Empire spreading from Morocco to Libya before becoming the Roman province of "New Africa"	Numidia	14%

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