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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Kinship, Political Leadership, and Global Africans — Drill 4 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies questions on kinship systems, political leadership in pre-colonial African societies, and the global African presence before the transatlantic slave trade. These AP exam prep questions reinforce Unit 1 essential knowledge and skill in applying disciplinary knowledge.
Passage
“In the kingdom of Mali, the mansa held authority not through individual power alone but through an intricate web of kinship obligations, tributary relationships, and alliances with powerful lineage heads. The ruler’s legitimacy depended on maintaining these networks — to lose the loyalty of one’s kin groups was to lose the throne itself.”
— Adapted from a scholarly description of Mali’s political structure, based on the account of Ibn Battuta, 1352
Questions in This Drill
- According to the source, which of the following best explains the basis of political authority in the Mali Empire?
- A historian using this source to study African political systems would most likely argue that pre-colonial African states were characterized by which of the following?
- Kinship systems in pre-colonial West African societies served which of the following primary functions?
- Compared to European feudal systems of the same era, pre-colonial West African political structures relying on kinship networks were similar in that both
- Which of the following best describes a continuity in the African global presence across history?