The Role Of The Europeans Before The First American Arrival

The first Americans were already in America before the first Europeans settled there. The Americans were already practicing different cultures thought the hemisphere. They had their own cultures and towns, and they also fought for territory and trade. The Americans built many large cities and developed religions. The West Africans had already developed both diverse and complex cultures before the Europeans arrived. The empires which are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, dictated western Africa. All those empires traded with the Europeans and Arabs. Africans traded with Asia to access cloth, and spices. West Africa also had smaller states with developed cultures. Religion was very important to Africans. Portugal made alliances with sailors from