if we arent talking about the football patriots, patriots where the colonists of the thirteen colonies who have rejected british rules during the american revolution and declared the united states.
The gold rush brought thousands of people to California.
21 years old that is the answer
Gorbachev pursued glasnost and perestroika reforms in part because the war in Afghanistan had drained the nation's resources. Mikhail Gorbachev, as known as the former General Secretary of the Soviet Union (Russia), noticed that there has been a huge decrease in their resources. They were fighting a war in Afghanistan, and used all of the nation's resources to help them win the war. Since they used most of their resources, they didn't have much to help the economy, so if they don't get enough resources back, the economy would fail. Because of this Gorbachev made a movement called "perestroika" to help get back the nation's resources. What this movement did was let the government speaker, or have a conversation, about the issues that are going on in the economy, and see if there could be a way to solve it.
The important natural resource in West Africa that the Songhai Empire controlled was salt.
A.) Salt mines in the sahara desert is the answer.
