WorksheetsThe Golden age of Timbuktu
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
