Islam entered the African continent from North African countries such as Morocco and Egypt, and was one of the first regions to be conquered by the early Arab-Islamic expansion (7th and 8th centuries). From the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, Muslim traders contributed to the emergence of important kingdoms in West Africa, which flourished thanks to the caravan trade that traversed the Sahara across the Mediterranean world alongside the mountains and savannas of Western Sudan and Central West Africa.
However, a spread of Islam on the African continent gave much more trade and allowed military impositions.
Church outposts were known as <u>Missions.</u>
Leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Battle of Antietam was one of the bloodiest in American history. The war was photographed and many letters were sent home of the horrors seen at the battle.
The battle itself was a stalemate but the Union claimed victory. The battle kept Confederate forces in Maryland and prevented the war from entering the Union states. This convinced Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in Confederate states. The proclamation was symbolic more than it had any actual effect. It gave the bloody war a moral reason to continue the fight. From that point the war became about unifying the Union--a Union that would be without slavery.
<span>Lawrence v. Texas</span>
In its landmark ruling, the Supreme Court
found that a Texas statute banning consenting homosexual adults from engaging
in sexual acts violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Consequently, the United
States Supreme Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas.
Answer: trenches. WW1 is famous for its trench warfare- a dangerous form of warfare that resulted in a lot of deaths as stalemates lasted for months.