If you travel from Tallahassee, the capital of Florida to Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, you will be moving to a north direction. On the maps you can easily see that they are positioned in an almost straight north-south line. Atlanta on the north, while Tallahassee on the south.
It has opened new trade routes and we can see what they used for their roads and we can make ours better.
They really help in the process of Africa's state building, creating commercial networks between parts of the continent, and introducing literacy ( especially on northern part of Africa)
They also controlled the sea route between Asia and Africa and managed to maintain the relationship between Africa and the middle east
It has caused them to both have different temperatures
