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Title: Africa- Trade Routes


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Africa- Trade Routes
  • Gold and Salt
  • The Empires of Ghana and Mali

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  • Major trade routes crossed the Sahara
  • Desert to the empires of Ghana, Mali
  • and Songhai
  • Salt (Sahara) gold (Niger River, Senegal River)
  • Sahara-hot, empty desert camels trade towns
    (oasis)
  • Items traded gold, salt, copper, ivory, spices,
    cloth, silver, kola nuts, dates, slaves, textiles,

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  • Ghana (Niger River Timbuktu, Koumbi Saleh)
  • Mali (Mansa Musa, Timbuktu)
  • Songhai (Sunni Ali, Askia the Great, Berbers,
    Morocco Timbuktu)
  • Trading Posts Timbuktu, Koumbi Saleh, Gao,
    Djenne, Niani
  • Muslim bandits-destroyed all empires and trade
    routes

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