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The Soninke Ghana Empire (Wagadu) flourished in what is now Mauritania and Mali, growing rich from control of the trans-Saharan gold and salt trade.
Many Maya cities of the southern lowlands are gradually abandoned, possibly due to drought, warfare and political crisis.
The Persian Samanid dynasty rules Central Asia and Khorasan, making Bukhara and Samarkand cultural and trade centres on the Silk Road.
The Tang falls in 907 and China fragments into short-lived northern dynasties and numerous southern kingdoms.