Question

how does the sentence \the great city of timbuktu, home to arguably the world’s oldest university, was the intellectual center of its age\ in paragraph 2 contribute to the development of ideas in the text?
○ it demonstrates why the atlantic slave trade was so harmful to west african culture.
○ it reveals that people from timbuktu should not have become slaves because they were educated.
○ it supports the idea that west africa was a center of civilization before the slave trade.
○ it shows that west african societies were greatly impacted by the atlantic slave trade.

question 2
1 pts
what is the meaning of the word \assimilated\ as it is used in paragraph 6?
○ protected
○ made a part of

Explanation:

Question 1

• Analyze each option:
• Option 1: The sentence is about Timbuktu's intellectual status, not why the slave trade was harmful to West African culture. Eliminate.
• Option 2: The sentence doesn't discuss whether Timbuktu people should have been slaves. Eliminate.
• Option 3: Timbuktu being an intellectual center (with the world's oldest university) supports West Africa as a civilization center before the slave trade. This matches.
• Option 4: The sentence is about Timbuktu before the slave trade's impact, not showing the impact. Eliminate.

• "Assimilated" means to be integrated or made a part of a group or system. "Protected" means to keep safe, which doesn't match. "Made a part of" fits the meaning of assimilation.

Answer:

C. It supports the idea that West Africa was a center of civilization before the slave trade.

Question 2