Complete Africa Test Bank for 1250–1800

A Radical Revision of African History

This comprehensive Test Bank is a revised version of The African Middle Ages 1400–1800, and the companion volume to the authors’ well-known Africa since 1800.

African Societies in Expansion

By about 1250 AD, African societies were greatly expanding their political and economic scope. Islam was spreading south across the Sahara from Mediterranean Africa, and down the Indian Ocean coast.

European Contacts and Trade

Medieval Africa continues into the period of European contacts from the 15th century onwards, with some emphasis on the growth of the trans-Saharan, Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trade.

This Test Bank stresses both the strengths and weaknesses of African societies as the eighteenth century drew to a close.

It is an essential introduction to African history for students, as well as for the general reader.