The important natural resource in West Africa that the Songhai Empire controlled was salt.
This salt was predominantly found in the Sahara desert - there are still a lot of salt mines in this West African desert. The Songhai Empire heavily relied on salt trade, which brought most of its money into the empire - this is the reason why it was so powerful at the time - because of salt and gold.
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It can cause intense competition among nations with each seeking to overpower the other.
Explanation:
I think it gave people more rights and it also gave certain people with certain standards the opportunity to vote. The English Bill of Rights also led to the Women's Bill of Rights which women fought for (not sure if it was successful), since the EBoR only applied to men.
Some of the arguments used to support US expansion and manifest destiny were: European examples, new markets and access to vast natural resources. Because of the US massive industrial expansion and production, US industries needed new markets to sell their goods to and they need access to more natural resources to ensure the continued production. The US expanded its inluences into Alaska, the Pacific (Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, and the Philippines), Latin America and Asia (China and Japan)
