The Golden age of Timbuktu

What city was chosen to be the capital of the Songhai Empire?

• a. Cairo

• b. Carthage

• c. Aksum

• d. Gao

When was the Ahmed Baba institute established.

• a. 1591

• b. 1970

• c. 1894

• d. 1980

_______________ established Gao as the capital of the Songhai empire.

• Sonni Ali

• Mansa Musa

Timbuktu was one among many scholarly centers to exist in _________.

• Precolonial West Africa

• Colonial West Africa

Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam's Golden Age.

• True

• False

Which part of Africa was the best quality of teaching ?

• a. South Africa &North Africa

• b. North Africa & Middle East

• c. Middle West & South Africa

Gao so prospered and expanded during the next ________ years.

• a. 400

• b. 100

• c. 300

The end of timbuktu's golden age ended on 1591, when the site was taken over by musket- wielding soldiers from ______.

• a. France

• b. Songhay empire

• c. Morocco

• d. Mali empire

Mansa Musa became the ruler of Mali in which year ?

• a. 1324

• b. 1336

• c. 1312

• d. 1337

Today the Ahmed Baba institute has over __________ manuscripts.

• a. 2,000

• b. 1,000

• c. 30,000

• d. 40,000