Gold Trade and the Kingdom of Ancient Ghana
<span>Around the fifth century, thanks to the availability of the camel, Berber-speaking people began crossing the Sahara Desert. From the eighth century onward, annual trade caravans followed routes later described by Arabic authors with minute attention to detail. Gold, sought from the western and central Sudan, was the main commodity of the trans-Saharan trade. The traffic in gold was spurred by the demand for and supply of coinage. The rise of the </span>Soninke empire of Ghana<span> appears to be related to the beginnings of the trans-Saharan gold trade in the fifth century.
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Answer:
B. expanded the power of the presidency by creating new government agencies and programs.
Explanation:
- He created many agencies which expended his power.
- After a convincing victory in the 1936 presidential election, which won 60% of the vote, as well as consolidating the Democratic Party's seats in Congress, he felt that the United States deserved - in addition to a dominant and competent president - an equally competent and capable executive. which led both to enlargement and to the professionalization of presidential staff.
- Roosevelt noted after the 1936 election that state administration was the most inefficient and least successful segment of his first term, and was grateful that Republicans failed to spot and exploit that weakness during the presidential campaign.
Popular fervor led President Lincoln to push a cautious Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, commander of the Union army in Northern Virginia, to attack the Confederate forces commanded by Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, which held a relatively strong position along Bull Run, just northeast of Manassas Junction.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11,1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold national office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
The correct answer would be B) The Mediterranean Sea.
