they declared their loyalty to france
The main focus city of the Crusades was Jerusalem. The idea was that it was Christian territory, or at least should be Christian territory, and they always went to reconquer it. The fourth Crusade never made it to Jerusalem because they were busy sacking Constantinople which had a lot of troubles due to constant wars of the Byzantine Empire.
One way in which the Kingdom of Ghana facilitated the gold trade was by trading gold with slaves and other workers. Most of the trading was done with other African nations but some with Europeans.
Rockefeller was able to build his monopoly across the oil industry since he bought up oil refineries, cut costs, and reinvested his profits in other refineries.
Rockefeller was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, as well as philanthropist. He is widely regarded to as the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.
Rockefeller's wealth sky rocketed as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, and he turnt into the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak.
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani.On May 30, 1498, Christopher Columbus left Sanlúcar, Spain with six ships for his third trip to the New World. ... Columbus sailed to the Portuguese island of Porto Santo, then spent some in Madeira with the Portuguese captain João Gonçalves da Camara. He arrived at Gomera in the Canary Islands on June 19.
