The Europeans brought many diseases with them that decimated Native American populations
The people votes for members that are put in leadership positions in congress
- Timbuktu, a trading city in central Mali, is still referred to as the most isolated remote location in the world.
- Timbuktu started as a summer encampment for nomadic tribes of the region.
- During World War II Timbuktu was used to house prisoners of war.
- Today Timbuktu is very, very poor.
- Both droughts and floods consistently threaten the city. Flooding happens because the city doesn’t have an adequate drainage system to keep rainwater from building up.
- The movement of salt from the mines in the middle of the Sahara desert through Timbuktu to the Niger River is what Timbuktu depends on for its survival.
- Rice is the predominant crop grown in the area.
- It is about 15 km north of the Niger River.
- In the 14th Century it became the commercial, religious and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai.
- Timbuktu’s greatest contribution to Islam and world civilization was its scholarship. By the 14th Century important books were written and copied in Timbuktu.
They extend from our shore into the continental shelf. Not to mention, we have an EEZ, or exclusive economic zone, which extends about 200 nautical miles from our shores. In this area, we have full economic jurisdiction.
It’s a as they believed that through anything they would get this land such as the trail of tears
