Question

In 1944, researchers found Dutch duits and coins with text in this language on Marchinbar Island in Australia. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language. Though Offa of Mercia spoke Old English, he unusually minted a coin that copied text in this language from an Abbasid dinar.
ANSWER: Arabic [or al-ʿarabiyyah]
[10m] The Arabic coins from Marchinbar Island are thought to be from this polity. A namesake chronicle claims that this polity on the Swahili Coast was founded by the Shirazi prince Ali ibn al-Hassan.
ANSWER: Kilwa Sultanate [accept Kilwa Chronicle]
[10h] Two silver Arabic coins found in Rhode Island may be part of this pirate’s lost treasure. According to a 2024 book by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan, this pirate is thought to have become a royal spy after looting a Mughal fleet and triggering the first worldwide manhunt.
ANSWER: Henry Avery [or Henry Every; accept Jack Avery, John Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, or Long Ben] (The book is The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy.)
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