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The city-states along the eastern coast of Africa made ideal centers of trade. As trade intensified between Africa and Asia, prosperous city-states flourished along the eastern coast of Africa. <span>The city-states traded with inland kingdoms like Great Zimbabwe to obtain gold, ivory, and iron. These materials were then sold to places like India, Southeast Asia, and </span>China<span>. These were Africa’s exports in the Indian Ocean Trade. These items could be sold at a profit because they were scarce in Asian countries.</span>
¨Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls Summarize the central ideas of the text in no more than two sentences.¨
Female WWII Pilots The Original Fly Girls About 1,100 young women flew military aircraft stateside during World War II as part of a program called Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. These civilian volunteers ferried and tested planes so male pilots could head to combat duty.