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2 MAJOR TRADING GOODS

KINGS

they traded their few resources of gold & salt through silent barters: a process in which people exchanged goods

2 MAJOR EFFECT : ISLAMIC MERCHANTS

MOTIVES FOR CONVERSIONS

  • SOCIAL PRESTIGE
  • Political Advantages for the Kings

Merchant Diaspora tied Communities of the top-down path which in turn affected the influence of the upper elitist

KINGDOM OF GHANA the First Great Sahelian Kingdom around the 11th Century

merchant/worldly traveler

IBN BATTUTA

  • Traveled 75,000 miles
  • Through 49 countries
  • 29 years of Traveling

Conclusion

MAP OF TRADE ROUTE

LIKE ANY KINGDOM GHANA ROSE AND FELL WHICH BROUGHT WAY TO mALI EMPIRE (1215-1450)

reason i mention mali in regards to the trans-saharan trade and islam influence is the futher influence of its merchants/worldly travelers one such as

How big is The Sahara

Desert?

Why are Merchant diaspora

important?

2 MAJOR EFFECT OF THE TRADE ROUTE

Map

1st Major Effect

  • created conditions where hierarchies leveraged material network flows

Works Cites

  • David Robinson. Muslim Societies in African History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels (eds). The History of Islam in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.

ISLAMIC INFLUENCE IN THE TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE ROUTE (Kevin Thom)

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