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QPre-colonial Africa was characterized by how many different states and polities?

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  • A Around 1,000 ✔ ✖
  • B Around 5,000 ✔ ✖
  • C Around 10,000 ✔ ✖
  • D Around 15,000 ✔ ✖
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Pre-colonial Africa was home to a vast diversity of political organization and rule.
It is estimated that there were perhaps as many as 10,000 different states and polities across the continent.
These ranged from small family groups of hunter-gatherers to larger clan groupings, Sahelian kingdoms, autonomous city-states, and trading towns along the coast.

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