The worship of one god first emerge first of all in the Israelites. They believed in only one god who, in their belief, had made an arragement with them, so if they had followed him, he would gave them their liberty and freedom over other nation. From this religion, Catholic and Islam religion also would be born centuries later.
Since the agriculture improved on the countryside it means that the people in the town improved with better quality of produce.
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With the development of the trans-Saharan slave trade and the economies of gold in the western Sahel, a number of the major states became organized around the slave trade, including the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire. However, other communities in West Africa largely resisted the slave trade.
The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe
D he worked writing books and inheriting money but also ran a plantation so thats why I think thats the answer.
The Hebrew teaching reflect on western society today since their teaching help in shaping modern western society laws and rules of behavior.Some modern law are based on the law set forth in the ten commandment and others Jewish teaching.