How were the west african trading empires able to grow and become wealthy?

They had lots of important resources like gold and salt

Although this may be the opposite of what you think i will say it anyway. you were brought into this world for a reason and you still have soo much ahead of you. not everybody has an opportunity of living a great life, but it doesn’t give you a reason to end everything. somebody in the world loves you, and imagine what you would do to them if you left forever.

Here is a picture  of the net. its 4 squares in a row diagonal and on the third draw one square aove and under