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Leo Africanus Description of Timbuktu Question and answers 2023/2024 verified to passWho Wrote it? - correct answer Leo Africanus Who was he? - correct answer a former slave and reknowned writer and captured muslim When was it written - correct answer 1526 Where was it written? - correct answer In africa, in Timbuktu What is it ? - correct answer A travel report for pope leo X on timbuktu

Leo Africanus & descriptions of Timbuktu Question and answers 2023/2024 verified to pass Where was he from - correct answer He was born in Spain in 1483 and he was a Muslim Why do we know about him - correct answer - he was an educated man and he travelled a lot to Africa - we have a lot of documentation of his travels to west and North Africa - pope Leo X asked him to write a out his travels in Africa - he made two trips to Timbuktu - changed his a

Leo Africanus Description of Timbuktu

Leo Africanus & descriptions of Timbuktu

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 2023 Who was Abdel Kader Haidara? - Found out about the treasures when he was young - his father ran a school where people would study called the Haidara School which ran in their home How long has the Haidara school been around? since the sixteenth century, there were manuscripts in the house to prove it that were locked away Who was the first European explorer to reach Timbuktu through the Sahara? Alexander G...

Bantu ExpansionPrecolonial, became prosperous and spread culture/language to much of Afr besides Saan... Great ZimbabwePrecolonial, buildings w/o mortar Songhai Empireprecolonial kingdom w/ a lot of wealth and educational advancements, Timbuktu Ashanti EmpireSurvived through colonization, decently democratic acephalouswithout a central head

Where's Segu - On the Niger/Joliba River What's Timbuktu like? - Capital of trade, similar to NYC Garifuna - Africans in Central America, N.A., Canada, ~200,000 total Deal w/ Mexican Burials - 180 people. In 2006, a construction crew landed upon a church burial site and found bodies with strontium in their teeth particular to Africa, as well as decorative marks on their teeth that are stereotypically African. Other evidence dates these bodies as from 1550, marking the earliest remains...

GEOG 101 Week 5 Quiz North Africa/Southwest Asia 2023/2024 Graded A+. Which of the following countries is not a major oil producer?  A. Azerbaijan  B. Iraq  C. Turkey  D. Kuwait Question 4 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following statements about the Maghreb states is false?  A. In Algeria, oil revenues have replaced farm produce as the major export.  B. Morocco became embroiled in a territorial dispute when it annexed Western Sahara.  C. Thrivi...

GEOG 101 Quiz 5 Week 5 North Africa/Southwest Asia (Questions and Answers) 2023/2024 Graded A+. Which of the following will not help Turkey's application for membership in the EU?  A. Cession of Crete to Greece  B. Economic improvements.  C. Improved treatment of the Kurdish minority.  D. Resolution of the Cyprus situation. Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which of the following is not located in the vicinity of the Nile Delta?  A. Aswan High Dam  B. Cairo...