The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union<span> (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.</span>
You didn’t upload a picture of the map.
It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.
