In “Of our Spiritual Strivings” from the book The Souls of Black Folk, DuBois points out the racial discrimination that African Americans underwent and the suffering that resulted from it. He also mentions double consciousness, which is the individual sensation of feeling as if ones identity is divided into several parts making it hard to have a sense of identity. These experiences are still relevant as there is still racial prejudice such as in the Criminal Justice system
with a resource such as grain that was very common in egypt, trading it for resources not as common opens doors for bigger trading and more market. Wood became widely available and grain became available to others who traded in wood for it.