Timbuktu in the fourteenth century was a
A) barren and inhospitable location in the Sahara.
B) major port of trade with the eastern world on the Indian Ocean.
C) military outpost in the kingdom of Ghana.
D) city in Mali, with a distinguished faculty of scholars.
Answer: D
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