Cattlemen and Farmers where pitted against each other during the Range Wars.
All the Kingdoms of of West Africa gained their wealth from the so called Gold salt trade with the Islamic states to the north.
Ghana was the first kingdom of west Africa. Using the technology of storing grain and iron working ,the kingdom gained ascendancy in West Africa. Then with a monopoly with trade to the Islamic states became wealthy. The West African Kingdom would trade gold, ivory and slaves, for salt , manufactured goods, and cloth.
These precious goods from the north would then be traded with other tribes in Western Africa adding to the wealth. The Niger River was instrumental in moving goods within West Africa.
Ghana was replace by Mali as the dominate force in West Africa. Mali continued the same pattern of trade with the Islamic States. One of the kings of Mali Masa Musa ( meaning Great King) even traveled to Mecca bringing immense amounts of gold and slaves to the north
Mali was conquered by the Kingdom of Songhai. This kingdom followed the same pattern of trading gold, ivory and slaves with the north. The Niger River continued to be the main source of trade within Western Africa.
Then the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco decided to cut out the middle man. The Islamic Kingdom of Morocco destroyed the Songhai empire. However the other Western African kingdoms and tribes wouldn't trade with the Moroccans and the Gold Salt trade dissolved.
All three of the Western African kingdoms depended on the Gold Salt trade and control of the Niger River to dominate West Africa.
British tried to rise the taxes, so the Americans did not like it and staring to planning the American Revolution.
The Franco-Indigenous War only came to an end in 1763, when the Treaty of Paris was signed. It regulated the end of maritime and colonial disputes, but left behind the loss of almost all French possessions in North America, the recognition of all British achievements, and the possession of a small territory in Louisiana for the Spaniards.
I believe this was Darius I, also known as Darius the Great.
He was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire, and was known as the most famous and the most successful of all Persian leaders. He loved his people and wanted to give them everything he could, so he built and intricate web of roads.
The Peninsula(Peninsular) Campaign lead to the fall of the Confederate Capital.
