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The Golden age of Timbuktu

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

a. Cairo

b)

b. Carthage

c)

c. Aksum

d)

d. Gao

2.

When was the Ahmed Baba institute established.

a)

a. 1591

b)

b. 1970

c)

c. 1894

d)

d. 1980

3.

_______________ established Gao as the capital of the Songhai empire.

a)

Sonni Ali

b)

Mansa Musa

4.

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

a)

Precolonial West Africa

b)

Colonial West Africa

5.

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

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Which part of Africa was the best quality of teaching ?

a)

a. South Africa &North Africa

b)

b. North Africa & Middle East

c)

c. Middle West & South Africa

7.

Gao so prospered and expanded during the next ________ years.

a)

a. 400

b)

b. 100

c)

c. 300

8.

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

a)

a. France

b)

b. Songhay empire

c)

c. Morocco

d)

d. Mali empire

9.

Mansa Musa became the ruler of Mali in which year ?

a)

a. 1324

b)

b. 1336

c)

c. 1312

d)

d. 1337

10.

Today the Ahmed Baba institute has over __________ manuscripts.

a)

a. 2,000

b)

b. 1,000

c)

c. 30,000

d)

d. 40,000