Question

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The nations of north Africa are greatly different from those of the nations of sub-Saharan Africa as they have a physical barrier that divided them and culturally they are tied to the same cultural realms of the middle east nations as they share the same history and the same patterns of livelihood.

Answer 1

With a desert to the south and an ocean to the north and west, North Africans may have had no other option than to trade with those in the middle east. With trade comes cultural diffusion.