Multiple Choice. Which statement IS NOT TRUE as to how Timbuktu become such a center of learning? A. The city was so poor in 1500 that they opened for-profit colleges in order to increase the city’s income. B. The manuscripts produced and housed in the city were prized for the beauty and splendor of the calligraphy and the artwork. C. By 1500 about ¼ of the city’s population of 100,000 people were students from as far away as the Arabian Peninsula. D. The literary tradition in Timbuktu included scribes and imams who studied and copied works on law, algebra, physics, chemistry, Greek philosophy, and medicine, to name a few subjects

Multiple Choice. Which statement IS NOT TRUE as to how Timbuktu become such a center of learning? A. The city was so poor in 1500 that they opened for-profit colleges in order to increase the city’s income. B. The manuscripts produced and housed in the city were prized for the beauty and splendor of the calligraphy and the artwork. C. By 1500 about ¼ of the city’s population of 100,000 people were students from as far away as the Arabian Peninsula. D. The literary tradition in Timbuktu included scribes and imams who studied and copied works on law, algebra, physics, chemistry, Greek philosophy, and medicine, to name a few subjects

	A.	The city was so poor in 1500 that they opened for-profit colleges in order to increase the city’s income.
	B.	The manuscripts produced and housed in the city were prized for the beauty and splendor of the calligraphy and the artwork.
	C.	By 1500 about ¼ of the city’s population of 100,000 people were students from as far away as the Arabian Peninsula.
	D.	The literary tradition in Timbuktu included scribes and imams who studied and copied works on law, algebra, physics, chemistry, Greek philosophy, and medicine, to name a few subjects.