.How does the sentence “The great city of Timbuktu, home to arguably the world’s oldest university, was the intellectual center of its age” in paragraph 2 contribute to the development of ideas in the text? It demonstrates why the Atlantic slave trade was so harmful to West African culture. B. It supports the idea that West Africa was a center of civilization before the slave trade. C. It reveals that people from Timbuktu should not have become slaves because they were educated .D. It shows that West African societies were greatly impacted by the Atlantic slave trade.