Analyze the rise and fall of songhai

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1. Discuss and analyze the rise and fall of Songhai. How did the empire become so powerful? Why did it decline and ultimately collapse by 1591?

(be sure to discuss underlying causes as well as specific people and events)

2. Discuss and analyze the many cultural and scientific achievements of the Maya. Why did the Maya develop them? What made so many of these successes so unique? Why were these accomplishments, in so many ways, directly connected to one another within the context of Maya civilization?

3. Why did the Maya civilization suddenly collapse at the beginning of the 900sCE? Why is the fate of the Maya a cautionary tale?

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