(⌐■_■) (☞゚ヮ゚)☞A priest or priestess, is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.
Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, sacred texts, holy places, ethics, and societal organisation that relate humanity to what an anthropologist has called "an order of existence".
A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence."
Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.
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In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. But it shrunk English demand for southern raw cotton and increased the final cost of finished goods to American buyers.
<span>Mali and Songhai they seem share similarities in that they were both in West Africa, they both had power over some of the same cities (ie. Gao and others). </span>