Trade Transsaharyski
Transatlantic shipping routes around 1400
Trans-Saharan Trade - Trade between the Mediterranean Sea and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Since about 650, Muslim merchants have traveled more and more frequently through the Sahara. They organized risky expeditions with camel caravans. They sold salt in the south, luxury goods like ceramics, glass beads, brassware and leather inlaid cloth, ivory, slaves and gold. Gold exports became the basis for most African countries. Arab merchants were traveling in the wilderness, and European ones were rare because of the precious gold. The main trans-Saharan routes are from Tanger to Timbuktu, Kumbi Salih (Ghana), Benin. From the western African states of Takrur, Ghana, Benin, popular routes east to the states of Alwa, Aksum, Makkura, and also to Egyptian Alexandria. From Aksum, the trade also led to Mogadishu and to the east coast of the Indian Ocean to Zanzibar. Bibliography
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