III. Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara

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• III. Sand Roads Exchange across the Sahara
• Commercial Beginnings in West Africa
• 1. Environmental variation around the Sahara
• - Each area produced different goods
• A. North Weapons, tools, books, clothes,
  glass
• B. Sahara Copper, salt, date palms
• C. South Millet (type of grain), sorghum
• D. More South (forests) root and tree crops,
  yams, kola nuts
• 2. Sudanic West African trade and urban centers
• - Sudan Any area south of the Sahara
• - Key areas of trade along the Niger river

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• III. Sand Roads Exchange across the Sahara
• B. Gold, Salt, and Slaves Trade and Empire in
  West Africa
• 1. Camel caravans carrying gold and salt
• 2. Wealthy empires based on trade
• - Ghana, Mali, Songhay gold and monopolies
  over trade routes
• 3. Women in the workforce roles in the court,
  agricultural laborers, and makers of craft goods
• 4. Slave trading
• 5. Cosmopolitan cities centers of trade,
  manufacturing, culture, education, and religion

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• IV. An American Network Commerce and Connection
  in the Western Hemisphere
• Geographic barriers
• - Jungles, untraveled lands, Isthmus of Panama
• Regional trade networks
• Mayan and Aztec trade
• - Wealth through control of trade in their
  territory
• - Pochteca Aztec professional merchants
• Incan roads
• - 20,000 miles of roads
• - State controlled network of trade

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Mapping the Sand Roads

• On your 11 x 17 world map
• Map the sand roads
• Label specialized goods transported in both
  directions
• Label key cities on route
• Label cultural and disease diffusion in all
  directions
• Create a key on the map, to identify various
  goods, routes, diseases, and diffusions

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Critical Thinking Questions

• Looking at your map of the world and the various
  trade routes