The Great Depression was an economic downfall that forced many families into poverty. In October of 1928, there was a major stock market crash which fueled the beginning of the depression.
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The kingdom of Songhai, also spelled Songhay, West Africa's great trade state, focused on what is now central Mali on the middle reaches of the Niger River and gradually spreading west to the Atlantic coast and east to Niger and Nigeria.
While the Songhai people are said to have settled in the city of Gao about 800 CE, during the reign of the dia Kossoi, a Songhai convert to Islam, they did not consider it as their capital until the beginning of the 11th century. During the next 300 years, Gao prospered and expanded so much that the rulers of Mali added it to their kingdom from 1325 to 1375.
Buddhism is China's oldest foreign religion. Buddhism has had a long history in China. Buddhism started in India. Gautama Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. He lived from 600 to 400 BC. His rules and teachings was learned and passed down by oral tradition until about the second century BC when a scripture was wrote. The scripture was brought to China. There was Silk road Buddhism, Early Chinese Buddhism, Chama Buddhism were different types. When Gautama was 29 he wanted to know the truth through not eating and stuff. He almost starved himself. The he wanted to solve suffering and death. <span />
The ancient Roman and Greek civilizations had well-organized political processes that greatly influenced the manner in which later governments were structured in Europe and the United States. The system of political parties, the establishment of divisions in government -- even political words such as democracy, monarchy and tyranny -- originated in ancient Rome and Greece. Although Rome drew many of its political principles from the Greeks, and as a result, developed a government similar to that of Greece, there were several differences between the two.
