Flooding rivers helped contribute to the beginning of farming communities because of sediment deposits that would be spread beyond the banks of the river to the land near rivers. This sediment helped to create highly fertile land that could then be used for farming. The mineral rich sediment helped to develop early farming and allowed for the natural cycle of rivers to boost agricultural production.
<span>Since the Paleolithic Era was also known as the "Old Stone Age" this means that this humans primarily used stone for tools, although other materials such as wood were sometimes also used.</span>
<span>The Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires each grew wealthy and powerful through their trade of many products, but particularly gold. Because of the the empires were so heavily dependent on trade, various circumstances that diminished the empires' trading capacities, including the death of a leader or the strengthening of a rival empire, eventually led to their decline.</span>
An asteroid or comet crashed into earth.
