Trans-Saharan trade is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara. Though this trade began in prehistoric...
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The trans-Saharan slave trade, also known as the Arab slave trade, was a slave trade in which slaves were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were...
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trade routes traversed multiple regions of Africa, creating a complex web of commerce and cultural exchange. In West Africa, the trans-Saharan trade routes...
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of trade, when West African gold was in high demand. This led to an increase in the need and use for trade routes. From 1300 the Trans-Saharan trade routes...
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'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī; the mainstay of the trans Saharan trade was gold and salt. The powerful Saharan tribes, Berber in origin and later adapting to...
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Ruins of Loropéni (section Trans-Saharan trade)
occupied by the Lohron or Kulango people and prospered from the trans-Saharan gold trade, reaching its height between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was...
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The Trans-Sahara Highway or TAH 2, formally the Trans-Saharan Road Corridor (TSR), and also known as the African Unity Road, is a transnational infrastructure...
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Trans-Saharan trade with the Maghreb and gold fields to the south. The oasis city of Oualata served as a trading post and customs station for Trans-Saharan...
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Africa (section Height of the slave trade)
respective societies and meant that prior to the accession of trans-Saharan trade routes, symbiotic trade relations developed in response to the opportunities...
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Songhai Empire. The Saadians did achieve their aim of controlling the Trans-Saharan trade routes, which secured a supply of gold and slaves. In the long term...
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depended on this trade and when the Portuguese established trading posts on the African coast, the importance of the trans-Saharan trade and thus of Djenné...
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command of Judar Pasha to conquer the Songhai and gain control of the trans-Saharan trade routes. The Songhai Empire collapsed after the defeat at the Battle...
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civilization with ancient India, the Fertile Crescent, Arabia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Epipaleolithic Natufians carried parthenocarpic figs from Africa...
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Slavery in Nigeria (redirect from Slave trade in Southern Nigeria)
throughout the history of Nigeria, notably during the Atlantic slave trade and Trans-Saharan trade. Slavery is now illegal internationally and in Nigeria. However...
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woodland environment. This region has many connections to trans-Saharan trade, as well as Atlantic trade and British colonial and economic interests. The effects...
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Founded by the Sefawa dynasty in the 11th century, the town dominated trans-Saharan trade in ivory and slaves between the central Sahara and Libya. The precise...
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crossing was common, and trade routes followed chains of oases that were strung across the desert. The trans-saharan trade was in full motion by 500 BCE...
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savanna, south of the Sahel, Kano is a major route of the trans-Saharan trade, having been a trade and human settlement for millennia. It is the traditional...
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Slavery in Libya (redirect from Libyan slave trade)
African and trans-Saharan slave trade. Since Ancient times, the territory of modern Libya was a transit area for the slave trade from Sub-Saharan Africa across...
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The Trans-Saharan Railway was a project conducted by France to build a rail line south through Algeria to sub-Saharan Africa. Its original intended use...
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Morocco begins to press southward, in search of a greater share of the trans-Saharan trade. The Cagayan battles in the Philippines, the only recorded clashes...
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century, it was long the most important Tuareg town, benefiting from trans-Saharan trade, and declining with it from the eighteenth century. It was abandoned...
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respective societies and meant that prior to the accession of trans-Saharan trade routes, symbiotic trade relations developed in response to the opportunities...
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Sahara (redirect from Saharan Africa)
Niger, and Tunisia (1881). By the beginning of the 20th century, the trans-Saharan trade had clearly declined because goods were moved through more modern...
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Chinguetti (section Center of Trade)
as of 2013. Founded in the 13th century as the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, this small city continues to attract a handful of visitors...
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the Taghaza mines formed an important part of the long distance trans-Saharan trade. The salt pan is located 857 km (533 mi) south of Sijilmasa (in Morocco)...
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advice of Okomfo Anokye, his premier. Sited at the crossroads of the Trans-Saharan trade, Kumase's strategic location contributed significantly to its growth...
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at strategic trade locations such as Begho on the Trans-Saharan trade route and Elmina, a source of trade during the Atlantic slave trade. States were...
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Tuareg people (section Caravan trade)
Tuareg have controlled several trans-Saharan trade routes and have been an important party to the conflicts in the Saharan region during the colonial and...
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Ife Empire (section Trade)
was one of the oldest trading empires in West Africa and an early partner in the trans-Saharan trade. One of Ife's earliest trade routes was up the Niger...
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