African traders along the coast from Somalia to Mozambique embraced Islam and created a new language called Swahili, which incorporated many borrowings from

a) Arabic.
b) Hindi.
c) Chinese.
d) Spanish

Answer: A

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All of the following are important symbolic themes of this painting except:

a. The painting reveals the theme that only men were truly capable of revolutionary sacrifice.
b. The main theme is the high cost of patriotic sacrifice.
c. Napoleon's conquering of Italy.
d. The story concerns the patriotic sacrifice of the Roman Republic to that of France.

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