Askia encouraged learning and literacy, ensuring that Mali's universities produced the most distinguished scholars, many of whom published significant books and one of which was his nephew and friend Mahmud Kati. To secure the legitimacy of his usurpation of the Sonni dynasty, Askia Muhammad allied himself with the scholars of Timbuktu, ushering in a golden age in the city for scientific and Muslim scholarship.[5] The eminent scholar Ahmed Baba, for example, produced books on Islamic law which are still in use today. Muhammad Kati publishedTarikh al-fattash and Abdul-Rahman as-Sadi published Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of Africa), two history books which are indispensable to present-day scholars reconstructing African history in the Middle Ages.
The Roman's defeat of Carthage transformed the Western Mediterranean by making Rome the dominant power in the entire region.
Option B is the correct answer.
<h3>What was Carthage?</h3>
Carthage was the ancient colony of Rome that collapsed in 146 BCE after the Punic wars.
Punic wars were the combination of wars between Romans, Republics, and the Carthaginian Empire that arose in 264 BCE which led to the falling down of Carthage, end to the slavery of Carthaginian people, and increasing the control of Roman over the western part of Mediterranean.
Therefore, Rome became the superpower in the Western Mediterranean after defeating Carthage.
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The Industrial Revolution arose in Great Britain
