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Answer:
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<em>The "Silk Road" is a network of ancient overland trade routes that extended across the Asian continent and connected China to the Mediterranean Sea.</em>
Babylon<span> greatly expanded from the small provincial town that it had originally been during the Akkadian Empire (2335-2154 </span>BC<span>) during the reign of Hammurabi in the first half of the 18th century </span>BC<span>, becoming a major capital city.</span>
The Sahara is a desert located in northern Africa (as you can see in the map). And one of the only answer countries in proximity to that desert is Mali, so the answer would be C.
