The answer is gold and salt. Mali and Songhai were among the 3 powerful empires who did flourish in West Africa. They did control the trade at their time. Hope this is the answer and would be of big help.
Cold War philosophy. Rather than trying to lessen tensions through the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) like his predecessors, he started an arms race between the US and Russia. The idea was that Russia didn't have the resources to keep up with plans like the Strategic Defense Initiative (a missile shield) and Mikhail Gorbachev would ultimately surrender.
Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
C. As compound interest includes interest on interest, and pays better than simple interest.
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