"Much of what we know about early West Africa comes from the writings of travelers and scholars from Muslim lands such as Spain and Arabia."

Question

What is the best inference you can make from this statement?

(1 point)
Responses

Very few travelers ever visited early West African empires.
Very few travelers ever visited early West African empires.

The people of West Africa left no written histories of their own.
The people of West Africa left no written histories of their own.

The people of West Africa were not interested in keeping track of their histories.
The people of West Africa were not interested in keeping track of their histories.

The people of West Africa never traveled beyond the borders of their empires.

Answer 1

The best inference you can make from the statement is:

The people of West Africa left no written histories of their own.

This inference is supported by the fact that the information we have about early West Africa primarily comes from external sources, indicating a lack of written records produced by the people of that region during that time.