The fact of isolationism and they had already purchased Hawaii and Alaska, the manifest destiny was about moving west, when you are too far west you can’t go west or else your drown in Pacific Ocean
During Franklin’s era, there was myth that a severed snake would come back to life if the pieces were put together before sunset.
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Its power came, above all, from trade. empire's total area included nearly all the land between the Sahara Desert and the coastal forests. The 1599 battle of Djenné marked the effective end of the great Mali Empire and set the stage for a plethora of smaller West African states to emerge.
