Answer:
NATO
Explanation:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
In West Africa, the three most important empires were Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, all of which profited tremendously from the trans-Saharan gold trade. ... Their territorial holdings were eventually larger than either Mali or Ghana, until civil war irreparably weakened the empire.
Powerful European nations began a process of taking over entire sections of the world in the 1800s and early 1900s, a series of conquests remembered as imperialism that set up mighty empires.
