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Trans Saharan Routes
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Trans-Saharan Routes
Social impact
History
The History
The first route has been between Wadi Draa (Southern Morocco) and the Ghana Empire (Southern Mali) in the mid 8th century CE and passed through an area of the Sahara controlled by the Sanhaja Berbers.
Trans-Saharan trade requires traveling across the Sahara (North and South) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe and to the Levant.
Geography of the Trans -Saharan Trade
Geography of the Trans -Saharan Trade
The Land use :
The impact of Trans-Saharan Trade
The West Africans exchanged their local products like gold, ivory, salt and cloth for North African goods such as horses, books, swords and chain mail. This trade is called the trans-Saharan trade because it crossed the Sahara desert, also included slaves.
One of the impacts of the growing trans-Saharan trade was Arabic, a written language in West Africa. Arabic became a language of faith and religious scholarship. Many Mallams, Shereefs, and other seers who came to the region. It was also a language of government and law. The impacts of the growing trans-Saharan trade was the spread of Arabic as a written language in West Africa.
The Social Impact
It has been argued that perhaps one of the most significant effects of the trans-Saharan trade was the establishment and proliferation of the trade in human beings (Brett 1969). Sub-Saharan African slaves were bartered for bars of salt and other Mediterranean goods.