Question
A series of statues excavated from a city with this name depicts people with pustule-like spheres, such as a seated man twisting over his knee. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this name of a city in the Inland Niger Delta whose guild of masons annually organizes community restorations of a massive mud brick mosque with three towers.
ANSWER: Djenné [or Jenné; accept Djenné Djenno; accept the Great Mosque of Djenné]
[10e] Pascal James Imperato theorized the pustules could be from blackfly bites or this disease, whose variolation was taught by the enslaved man Onesimus. Edward Jenner created a vaccine for this eradicated disease.
ANSWER: smallpox [or variola or variola vera; prompt on a pox or the red plague]
[10m] Djenné-Djenno was less socially stratified than this other site, whose elites lived in homesteads called muzidna. This stone city built by the Shona people names a Southern African country.
ANSWER: Great Zimbabwe [prompt on Zimbabwe]
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