shared a ruling philosophy based on aggressive territorial expansion.
<span>The three most powerful West African empires over the 1100 years between 400AD and 1500AD were the Ghana Empire (400AD-1230AD), succeeded by the Sosso Empire (1230AD-1350AD), which later fell to the Mali Empire (1250AD-1670AD).</span>
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The battle allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. For two months, Lincoln's order proclaiming the freedom of slaves in rebel territories had festered in a desk drawer, awaiting good news from the battlefield, lest it be seen as a desperate ploy.