History Questions and Answers

Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s is the correct answer. In Sudan, the Mahdiyya Movement was the revolutionary movement that overthrew the Ottoman-Egyptian regime which conquered Sudan in 1820-1822.

The correct answer is the nationwide corruption by the politicians. This gave the military coup plotters the leverage to overthrow the ruling government. N.B: The question tests your knowledge on what most importantly inspired the military disruption of the Nigerian growing democracy in the 1st Republic.

The Church Missionary Society (CMS) is the correct answer. The CMS, an offshoot of the Anglican Church was the first to become firmly established mainly among the freed slave settlers from Britain, Nova, Scotia and other parts of the New World.

Attack on the Portugese in the 1649s is the correct answer as this attack was carried as a revenge on the Portuguese who had sought to control their strategic position of the Straits of Hormuz at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.

Imperial expansion and firearms trading is the correct answer. Kanem-Borno Empire believed in the expansion of its imperial territories and in the same vein, traded in firearms and horses for the purpose of creating a sophisticated cavalry.