"Gold was not useful for making tools or weapons. A Diverse Capital. Koumbi, the capital city of Ghana,was the wealthiest city in West Africa because of the gold/salt trade. Many of the traders who went to Koumbi were Muslims. The local Soninke people kept their culture in tact by separating themselves from the Muslims."
I'm guessing "overcoming difficult barriers"
The greeks pushed the Persians out of Greece to fight another day...
The Spaniards, in search of riches and new lands to conquer, together with the ancient legend of El Dorado, the land rich in gold and in abundance of all kinds, led them to explore, map and conquer northern Mexico, whose most famous explorers were Albar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who explored all of northern Mexico and even reached the territories of Texas and California, in their search for villages full of gold, and lands that had the same abundance of resources that the center and south of Mexico had.
The media tells the people what to think. When everyone is thinking the same thing, they yell it out to their political leaders. The political leaders have to do something about it or the people who complained to them about it will not re elect that person.
<span>That is how it works.</span>
