Question

Here are many doctors, judges, priests, and other learned men that are well maintained at the king's costs. Various manuscripts and written books are brought here…and sold for more money than other merchandise. Q: What about Timbuktu impressed by the writer?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The above quote was made by Leo Africanus about his impressions of Timbuktu, a Moroccan city that impressed him a lot because of the incentive to intellectual growth that was imposed in the region.

The author is impressed by the amount of books, readers and people with very intellectual professions such as doctors, judges, teachers, priests and many learned men who were able to continue academic studies through financing from the king himself.