Why was the city of timbuktu important?
a. it was the crossroads of travel from the atlantic coast to mecca.
b. it was a center of trade, culture, and education.
c. it was the site of the largest gold mines in africa.
d. it served as the west african home of the sultan of egypt.

a)scientists

explanation:

the national defense education act had two main goals. the first one was to provide personal that was oriented to defense, including scholars, engineering students and so on. the other goal was to provide financial assistance for the students who would be enrolling at colleges and universities in the 1960s.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.