Why was the Niger River important to the growth of the Mali Empire? It protected the Mali Empire from invasion.
It provided fertile farm soil and trade routes.
It served as a major source of salt and ivory.
It allowed Mali to trade on the Atlantic Ocean.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t