The Coining of 'Manifest Destiny' By the time Texas was admitted to the Union as a state in December 1845, the idea that the United States must inevitably expand westward all the way to the Pacific Ocean had taken firm hold among people from different regions, classes and political persuasions.
Africa was rich in natural resources. They wanted to establish colonies in Africa to extract them. There were also other reasons such as, nationalism, missionaries and ambition.
The empire traded with the Romans as well as with Egyptian and Persian merchants. <span>The economically important northern </span>Silk Road<span> and southern Spice (Eastern) trade routes. </span>Aksum<span> benefited from a major transformation of the maritime trading system that linked the Roman Empire and India.
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