History of Cars
1888 - Benz Patent-Motorwagen
1900's - Curved Dash Oldsmobile
1939 - Volkswagen Beetle
1968 - Ford Shelby GT
1992- Dodge Viper
Mansa Musa & Ibn Battuta 1280-1368
Salt and copper Crossing the desert, paying a horseman from the destination to meet you The Sahara Egypt was always a prosperous cross-road between three continents. At a time, the Kingdom of Carthage in modern day Tunisia & Libya was the biggest rival to the Roman Empire. the Moors of modern-day Morocco had conquered half of Spain until being forced out in the 14 th century, and the great Christian philosopher Augustine of Hippo (St Augustine named after) was a member of the Berber people from modern-day Algeria during the last days of the Roman Empire. However, these lands all bordered the Sahara Desert. The largest hot desert in the world. Covering almost 6 million square miles, it’s the size of China and the US combined. Alone it makes up 8% of the earths land mass. It receives less than an inch of rain each year, has a highest recorded temperature of 136 Fahrenheit and an average annual temperature of 86. (Florida is 72) Meanwhile, at night it drops to 21 degrees
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