How did religion, natural resources, and location each determine the prosperity of african societies?

Historically,  only those who were converted to Islam were allowed to rule or even to engage in any ind of comercial trading, showing how religion affected a society's prosperity.

Regarding location, areas that were located near trade routes where a lot of traders passed could prosper either by taxation or by developing trading.

Finally, natural resources were the main source of wealth for African societies, specially around the 14th century. A civilization with plenty access to gold would consequently posses higher wealth.

alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america  and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.in ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours 

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