The major city in ancient Ghana was Koumbi Saleh. (Where the king lived.)
B, is it because personification means something that the actions are like a person.
For an example:
Trees are whistling down the street.
Answer:
As different cultures settled in what would later become Italy, each brought their own gods and forms of worship. This made the religion of ancient Rome polytheistic, in that they worshipped many gods. They also worshipped spirits. Rivers, trees, fields and buildings each had their own spirit, or numen.
Answer:
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002
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