Trenches were dug by both sides in the war. The war made it to where both sides had casualities and deaths everyday, but neither side were gaining any land, so there wasn't anybody really winning. They just hid in their trenches and shot at any sign of life. (They also shot at light cigarettes, birds etc because they thought it was the soldiers.)
During 1200 to 1450, Timbuktu had the largest library in the world and it held hundreds of thousands of books. Their library brought them great wealth and prosperity. However, after Chris Columbus and his Spanish explorers discovered the Americas and eventually started the Columbian Exchange, Africans were greatly disadvantaged. The Europeans captured millions of West Africans and transported them to the Americas as slaves. Timbuktu was located in West Africa. Their library is their biggest token of wealth after all the horror all the enslaved West Africans went through.