HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Both empires took advantage oflarge gold mines within theirempires to fund their armies.
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Both empires lay along theupper Niger River, where fertilesoil made food plentiful.
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Both empires were helped byoutsiders.
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Both empires were formed as democracies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -2. Which of the following best illustrates a similarity between the development of the Gana and Mali empires? Both empires lay along the upper Niger River, where fertile soil made food plentiful.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Malian Empire and the Songhai Empire were similar in both the base of their power and the base of their wealth. Both empires expanded their territory through conquest–in fact, much of the territory controlled by the Songhai Empire was conquered from later, weaker, Mali rulers.
Detailed explanation-3: -list two ways in which the african kingdoms of ghana, mali, and songhai were similar as that they: benefitted from the gold and salt trade, were influenced strongly by trade.
Detailed explanation-4: -All three of the Western African kingdoms depended on the Gold Salt trade and control of the Niger River to dominate West Africa.
Detailed explanation-5: -All three kingdoms were located in a similar area, in the space between present-day. Still, the sizes of the empires varied, Ghana was the smallest, Songhai was the largest empire, and Mali was slightly smaller than Songhai. Empires had very similar economic and infrastructural characteristics.