Answer: B. Muslim merchants and traders made the city a bustling center for commerce.
Explanation:
Muslim merchants were used to living a very comfortable and luxurious life, and after hearing about the wealth in gold that the Ghana Empire posessed, once they settled, the city was turned into a commercial center for the Muslim World and would later become the Empire's capital.
Answer:
I belive a Primium Correct.
Explanation:
Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the Anaconda Plan.
When two major assaults (May 19 and 22, 1863) against the Confederate
fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to
besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies
nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the
garrison finally surrendered on July 4.
