The important natural resource in West Africa that the Songhai Empire controlled was salt.
A.) Salt mines in the sahara desert is the answer.
The three goals were to find a north west water passage from north America to Asia, exploit nearby fishing water and develop a fur trade, and they wanted to convert Canadian Indians to roman catholicism.
The answer is c. republic
It should be A. a secondary source
This is because biographies are texts in which someone writes about someone else's life
Since the writer didn't experience it firsthand it makes it a secondary source