The correct answer that would best complete the given statement above would be option A. MOVED EAST AND SOUTH. When <span>the Sahara began to dry up, west African farmers and herders moved east (Nile Valley) and South (West Africa). Hope this answer helps.</span>
What did the Louisiana Purchase achieve for the United States?<span>
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.</span>
<span>During the Bill Clinton administration, no-fly zones in the north and south of Iraq kept Saddam’s aircraft grounded in an effort to protect the Kurds and Shias. In February 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright confirmed that U.S. strategy toward Saddam was containment, arguing that removing Saddam would be too costly and that fomenting a coup would create false expectations.6
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