Question

Read this excerpt from "Mansa Musa l The Richest Man Who Ever Lived":

In about 1312, Musa came to power. At that time, Mali had millions of people spread across a vast
territory. Ancient Mali included parts of modern-day Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Senegal, and
Burkina Faso, as well as other countries.
What does the word vast mean in this excerpt?
O unfriendly
O wealthy
O
large
O
strange

Answer 1

large - using context clues, you can see they owned a lot of land, which would be a large amount of land