Muslim traders ventured in the area of Ghana in west Africa. Why did they come so far and how do we know of their travels?

Explanation:

They did this because they wanted to convert them to Islam's religion and to trade. they probably wrote stories and the people that study them probably found them. :)

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years