Question

15 Important facts about the Ancient City of Timbuktu. Can someone pls help me :(

Answer 1

- Timbuktu, a trading city in central Mali, is still referred to as the most isolated remote location in the world.

- Timbuktu started as a summer encampment for nomadic tribes of the region.

- During World War II Timbuktu was used to house prisoners of war.

- Today Timbuktu is very, very poor.

- Both droughts and floods consistently threaten the city. Flooding happens because the city doesn’t have an adequate drainage system to keep rainwater from building up.

- The movement of salt from the mines in the middle of the Sahara desert through Timbuktu to the Niger River is what Timbuktu depends on for its survival.

- Rice is the predominant crop grown in the area.

- It is about 15 km north of the Niger River.

- In the 14th Century it became the commercial, religious and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai.

- Timbuktu’s greatest contribution to Islam and world civilization was its scholarship. By the 14th Century important books were written and copied in Timbuktu.