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Land Use
The main way they use land is subsistence farming. They are growing food for their needs and not selling it to other people. Subsistence farming is giving food for the need of their families and commercial farming is cooperations grow one crop and sell it to people who don't have that certain crop.
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Natural Resources
They have two valuable mineral sources are diamonds and gold. Africa mines half of the world's gold.
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Two problems that they have are wars over natural resources and unequal wealth of the different countries. The minerals they have is tin, tantalum, and tungsten. Armed rebel groups control the mines. They force people to work and smuggle and sell minerals.
GDP Per Capita
English, Setswana - $50, 350
Spanish/French - $45,250
Portguese - $22,145
English, French - $13,100
French, Arabic- $8,112
Five of them have a GDP Per Capita. They have higher GDP because they have better education and better trade.
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Life Expectancy
There are 28 countries are with the lowest life expectancy is in Sub-Saharan Africa. They have dirty drinking water and little to no food. There are 28 countries full of people that have this problem.
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Powerful Training Empires
The three west kingdoms are The Kingdom of Ghana, The Kingdom of Mali, and The Kingdom of Songhai. The years they were in power was 800 CE-1600 CE. They were participating in the Trans- Saharan trade network. The West Africans brought gold to trade and North Africans brought salt to trade.
Slaves on the Trans-Saharan Network
They traded for African Muslims because the Muslims cannot enslave other Muslims. The slaves were primarily used as prisoners of war. They were treated better overall. Many could own property, serve as generals in armies, and it was easier.
King Mansa Musa and Timbuktu
Mansa Musa was king of Hajj. They say he was worth around $400 billion dollars. His years in Timbuktu were great. He brought back 60,000 people and 80 camels carrying 300 lbs. of gold each. He brought back Muslim scholars and architects to build cities like mosques and schools. Timbuktu in the center of the city is the center of Islamic learning.
Ibn Battuta: Explorer
Ibn Battuta was 21 years old when he began his travels. He started his travels from Tangier. He traveled 75,000 miles all over Africa and Asia. He traveled for 29 years. When his travels were over he wrote about his travels.
