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Food was very easy to get, you trade for other things and get tons and tons of food or you can also grow crops. It is easier to trade because growing crops is not very easy.  You can travel to the Sahara and get some salt to trade for loads of gold and you can get food for a long tome.

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As you know there were many fallen empires, they all fell in a different way. Some times they fell buy another empire destroying it, other times it happened when the empire couldn't contain itself.

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There was loads of gold in Africa. What was more interesting was the salt. there was a ocean over the Sahara desert so there was salt there. They basically had  power because they had salt. salt was power.

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Life in West Africa was pretty great. You could get super rich or die real easily. If you live in Ghana at that time then you know that Ghana fell and Mali rose. If you lived in Mali then you know that Songhai  rose. All the big empires fell then the next empire rose.