President Lincoln was assassinated "before the Civil War was over" although it should be noted that it was very close to the end of the war. Everyone knew the North was going to win.
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As far as I am concerned Gao was not one of the Songhay Empire's major ones but I bet two answers should be acceptable in this question. I also think that you can include the third option from the scale represented above because <span>Algiers were quite far away on north so they couldn't be the part of the Songhay. </span>
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However, feudalism decline mainly begun when feudal lords were allowed to pay armies rather than fight themselves in the battles. More also, the black death made labor scarce and worthy commodity, at the same time when the peasants migrated to urban areas. Emergence of new towns, and trade opportunities also entrenched the kings powers and made the government centralized. other factors included the crusades and the age of exploration.
