Question 1: During the medieval period, West Africans traded gold for salt, using camels to create a
network that connected with North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Trade led to
great diversity and helped local rulers build strong states, like the kingdom of Ghana.
Based on the text, what was the role of trade in West Africa during the medieval period?
Standard: NCES. WH. H.2.7
O Trade led to the building of great empires and also increased cultural diffusion, leading to a
diverse population
O Trade led to the building of great empires that were democratically governed by leaders of the
new middle class.
O Trade was essential to the West African economy because the region had no local natural
resources.
Trade was economically essential for West Africa, but it resulted in Middle Eastern domination
of West African states.

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c it says nothing about connecting those 2 seas.

a hypothesis is an expected answer to a question, usually based on some theory or prior research. hypothesis testing is a method of determining the viability of a hypothesis. let’s use the us presidential election as an example. there are many hypotheses (questions) about how people feel or whom they will vote for. the only way to know the 100% “truth” about the answers to these questions is to ask every single possible voter – something that is impossible, expensive, time consuming etc. instead, we take samples and use statistics to make “best guesses” about the answer to a particular hypothesis. we never know for sure if our conclusion is right at the time we accept/reject it, but these techniques, when used appropriately can get us close to the truth most of the time (which is a lot better than guessing, flipping coins or throwing darts to get answers).

the tricky part about hypothesis testing is that we have to think somewhat backwards about it – we have to test what is known as the “null hypothesis”. as an example, the hypothesis might be “obama is more popular than romney” while the null hypothesis is “there is no difference in popularity between obama and romney”. we focus on the null hypothesis because it tells us exactly what the expected value of our tests should be (obama popularity = romney popularity) and we can collect data and see if it comes out that way (see next section on “significance”). if it does, then we “accept the null hypothesis” and reject our original hypothesis. if the null hypothesis is disproven, we look at the data to see if our original hypothesis holds (obama> romney).