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The Songhai empire's control over the Sub-Saharan trade routes allowed for them to trade their own resources for other resources. This may have allowed for the empire to flourish due to their access to resources.

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The advantages of the Songhai empire over the Sub-Saharan trade routes were that they were able to interact with other powers, leading them to gain more resources and power as a whole. The cause of their downfall was affected by the power of the trade routes since there was civil war in the kingdom, which led to the competition of resources and power.

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The advantages were that they could trade a lot, and this led to their success and their downfall. They used their control of the Sub-Saharan Trade routes to become powerful, and also the Moroccan Empire used this to weaken the Songhai Empire.

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The advantages that the Sub-Saharan controlled trade routes was that they were able to gain many trading opportunities. The disadvantages were that they may have had many enemies. Songhai began to downfall for the other new trade routes emerging around them.

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The Sub-Saharan trade route was advantageous to the people because it allowed for commerce to happen and benefited from the resources they gained.

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The advantages of the Songhai empire were that they received immense wealth from trading, gained lots of resources that were profitable, and had significant religous influence (Islam). Some of the disadvantages included and over reliance on trade and disruptions within the trade routes which led to neighboring empires also attempting to sabotage their wealth and economic reliance.

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The Songhai empire was able to obtain great wealth through the bountiful resources they had within their territory such as gold and salt. Through trading these resources, their economy grew. This is how their empire flourished with wealth. Although they benefitted through the trade routes, they ultimately faced collapsed due to competition with other nations.

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Their reliance on their advantageous trade routes both benefited them and put them at a detriment. When those trade routes were the major ones, they had the advantage, getting rich off of trade. However, the competition and emergence of new trade routes ultimately led to their downfall.

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The advantages that the Songhai empire had were that they had control over trade routes which contributed to their success by allowing them to tax goods such as salt and gold. This would also lead them to their downfall because they relied heavily on this.

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The advantages the Songhai Empire had as they had control over Sub-Saharan trade routes was that it allowed them to have abundant resources which also allowed them to thrive through trade and cultural exchange. It was one of the main things that led to its success. However, what eventually led to their downfall was were constant fights with other empires.

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The Songhai Empire's control over Sub-Saharan trade routes, especially the Trans-Saharan trade route, brought immense wealth through the taxation of goods like gold and salt. This economic advantage allowed the empire to expand its territory, strengthen its military, and achieve significant prosperity. However, their heavy reliance on these trade routes made them vulnerable to changes in trade dynamics. As new trade routes emerged, bypassing the traditional ones, the Songhai Empire's economic foundation weakened. This shift, combined with internal conflicts and external invasions, ultimately led to the empire's decline.

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The advantages was that they were able to be a successful empire and trade extensively allowing them to prosper, and grow their empire. But having these trade routes resulted in conflicts around the empire making the reason for the fall being influenced by trade routes.

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While it was good to have the trade routes there was large competition regarding it which eventually would lead to the empire success but also downfall.

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Controlling the Sub-Saharan trade routes provided the Songhai Empire with immense wealth and political influence, allowing them to fund a powerful military and expand their territory. However, this reliance on trade also made them vulnerable to disruptions, such as shifts in trade patterns or attacks on trade caravans

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The Songhai Empire had control over the Sub-Saharan trade routes, which means that they are able to regulate their trade without any problem. This abled the Songhai Empire gather many resources from exchanges, making them wealthy. One disadvantage they had was competition. The Moroccans wanted to take control over the Sub-Saharan trade for the same reason: wealth. Their control over the Sub-Saharan trade route made them successful in the first place, but their leadership had caused them to weaken their security over the trade routes.

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When the Songhai Empire had control over the Sub-Saharan trade routes, the major advantage they had was making them wealthy through trading goods such as salt and gold. This allow them to expand and succeed through these Sub-Saharan trade routes for their Empire. However, this dependence on trading became a factor of their downfall since there were new trade routes emerging around them, diminishing their economic power that was benefited on the trade routes.

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The Songhai Empire's control over Sub-Saharan trade routes, particularly the Trans-Saharan trade route, was a major advantage that significantly contributed to their success, allowing them to amass wealth through taxes on goods like gold and salt, but eventually, the overreliance on this trade and its vulnerability to external forces became a factor in their downfall as new trade routes emerged and disrupted their economic dominance.

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Suhaan Ali-

The advantages that the Songhai empire had over would have been an control over the resources in that region but it was allowed for them to be influences by other empires through trading and the want to surpass them. This was one of the main factors in their decline and downfall as this allowed for more competition to arose but allowed for them to gain an initial advantage.