What factors the trade system flourish in west africa?

There were many factors that helped the trade system to flourish in West Africa. Like, The Timbuktu trading network that connected West Africa to the ports of North Africa that allowed easy access to Europe and Asia.

West Africa had a long coastline which connected it to many different lands and also had direct access to Saharan trade routes. Due to this a sophisticated and powerful society flourished in West Africa. Moreover the leaders there grew wealthy by taxing the goods that passed through their routes. With this wealth, they were able to open new trade routes and finance larger armies.

for the united states of america, 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. it was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist united states and its allies politically opposed the soviet union and other communist countries; the cold war had begun.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion