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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