1. How did geography help Ghana to develop a strong economy?

2. List and explain a few ways in which Ghana became one of the most wealthy and powerful empires of the time period.


3. Why did the kingdom of Ghana suddenly need to trade gold for salt?


4. What weakened the Kingdom of Ghana? Who finally conquered the Ghana Empire?


5. How did Mali influence Europe (“The Old World”)?


6. Who was Mansa Musa? List some of his major accomplishments.


7. What was the religion of the Mali Empire?


8. List two reasons why Mansa Musa traveled to Mecca.


9. What was Timbuktu and why it was so important?


10. What factors contributed to the success of the kingdom of Mali?

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

explanation:

answer

the statement that best describes president carter’s attempt to free the hostages in iran is c. all of the attempts failed.

explanation

the operation eagle claw conducted by the united states armed forces was a failed mission which aimed to rescue 52 americans captured as hostages in the american embassy, tehran on 24/4/1980.the mission was authorized by president jimmy carter. the failures included;   obstacles in operation that included operational conditions challenges caused by sandstorms, hydraulic problems of one the helicopters and , mechanical failure of another helicopter that was identified as a cracked rotor blade and the crashing of another helicopter during mission abortion causing death of 8 service persons.