the+physical+of+songhai

===**Climate: The location of where the Songhai empire is a very rough climate. It was cool and dry from November to February and hot and wet from May to October. So the area where Songhai was is very hot and dry. It was a pretty hard place to farm crops.**===

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===**Soil: The agriculture of the songhai empire wasn't that good. Around the eastern part of the empire's land there were many droughts and land problems but around the western area there were many water masses, lakes and rivers. They were used as major agriculture points to grow food/crops.**===



http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/fieldday/kids/pictures/kidsfield600/cg_wheat_closeup.jpg ===Relative Location: The Relative Location of Songhai was in Western Africa. Its Latitude is in between 25 degrees north and 0 degrees( equator), and It's Longitude is in between 15 degrees west and 7 degrees east The modern countries it was half on top or on top of were:=== === http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/SONGHAI_empire_map.PNG/300px-SONGHAI_empire_map.PNG **Animal Life: Some of the animal life in the location of the Songhai empire include lions and leopards that roam freely across the land. There are many antelopes and desert animals like camels and such that live there. Those are only some of the animals that are found in the vast area of the Songhai empire.**===
 * Senegal
 * Mali
 * Burkina Faso
 * Guinea
 * Gambia
 * Etc
 * Etc



http://levsen.org/kenya/wildlife/antelopes/topis_400.jpg ===**Landforms: Some of the geographical landforms inside the area of the empire are lake Faguibine, lake debo, the Niger river, the red volta, the white volta, The Sahel Etc. There are many more natural land forms but not to many mountains that are famous because this part of Africa is pretty flat.**===

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**Natural Disasters: There weren't many natural disasters in the Songhai Empire but they had some very dangerous disasters and they are:**
Famine
 * Draught
 * A break out of Diseases

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