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Section One : Social Studies Questions 86–90 (page: 19)

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Based on the information, which immediate economic effect is most likely to result?

For hundreds of years, a huge desert, the Sahara, separated and protected West Africa from European and Asian armies. However, eventually, between the years 1000 and 1500 A.D., Arab Muslim trading caravans from the north and east linked the trading world to three African kingdoms, one of which was Ghana. Ghana's king ruled more than a million people by the 11th century A.D. Ghana became a rich empire because it controlled the trade routes between the salt mines in the Sahara and the gold mines farther south. The Muslim kings of Mali conquered Ghana by the end of the 13th century. Mali's capital city, Timbuktu, became a great center of Islamic religion, learning, art, and trade.The Emperor Mansa Musa made Mali the center of gold production and African-Eurasian trade.
Eventually, the Songhai Empire conquered Mali in 1468 A.D. The empire reestablished Timbuktu as a great Muslim trading center in West Africa. Traders throughout Africa sought Songhai's tin and leather products. Songhai grew and ultimately controlled an area of 1, 500 miles across West Africa.
Adapted from The Age of Calamity, A.D. 1300-1400 (Richmond, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1989), 143-148; T. Walter Wallbank et al., History and Life, 4th ed. (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, and Co., 1993) 283­286, 324­329.

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Why was Timbuktu important in the empires of Mali and Songhai?

Journalists write stories for newspapers, radio, and television.To get information in an interview, journalists must first gain a person's trust.However, journalists sometimes may print information that a person does not want reported.Journalists argue that they are obligated to tell the facts as they see them.If this happens, the person who was interviewed may feel betrayed and embarrassed.
The idea that journalists should not reveal information to the public that people have asked them to keep secret is supported by which of the following statements?

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This 1868 lithograph shows an idealized scene presenting farmers and settlers from the East, along with railroads, moving into lands already occupied by Native Americans.


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This 1868 lithograph shows an idealized scene presenting farmers and settlers from the East, along with railroads, moving into lands already occupied by Native Americans.
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Which of the following statements best describes the lithograph?

The United States and Canada are multicultural societies.In 1995, French and English were official languages in Canada, and the government financed second-language instruction in elementary and high schools.In response to immigration in the early 1990s, the U.S. government funded bilingual programs whose main goal was to enable all U.S.
citizens to read and write English.
Which relationship between language and national policy reflects the programs supported in the United States and Canada in the early 1990s?