Kimpa Vita was captured by rivals and tried for heresy and burnt at the stake because she
a. was against the Jesuit missionaries.
b. wanted the people of the Kongo to unite under a new king.
c. attracted many Muslims to her doctrines.
d. claimed that the capital San Salvador was evil and ordered it burned to the ground.
e. claimed that Christ and the apostles were black men who had lived and died in the Kongo.
e
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a. Rome b. Paris c. Constantinople d. Aachen e. Avignon
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