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Sand Roads

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Technological Accomplishments

Agricultural Success

  • Using camel caravan for transport
  • Boats for carrying trade across rivers
  • Great Sahara held large deposits of salt and sweet, nutritious Dates.
  • Donkeys were used for short distances and Camels

for long distances

  • North African coastal areas = cloth, glassware, weapons, books
  • Sahara region = copper and salt
  • Savanna grasslands = grain crops
  • Sub-Saharan forests = tree crops and kola nuts

  • Camels were a turning point in the trans-Saharan trade, which increased trade between the Mediterranean basin and Africa

Kola nuts

Political

New states were created through the Trans Saharan Trade routes

  • Central Sudan
  • Ghana
  • Mali
  • Songhay
  • Kanem
  • Hausa
  • All were monarchies
  • All were rich

Religion

  • Sufis, teachers of the Islam religion spread the word of Allah through the Sand Roads
  • Islam and Hinduism clashed creating Sikhism

Interactions

  • Islam soon became a dominant religion in West Africa
  • Islam religion was open to trade

Several cultures interacted

  • Romans
  • The Sudan people (West Africa)
  • Niger River civilization
  • Arabs (North Africa)

Economic

  • They sought to find gold which was found in abundance at the border areas of the grasslands and forests of West Africa
  • Came to Africa for gold, ivory, kola nuts, slaves
  • Given in return: salt, horses, cloth, weapons, tools
  • The states of Sudanic Africa developed substantial urban/commercial centers

Gold ore

Tool

(probably used to collect grains)

Social

Arrangements

  • With the development of civilization, males slaves were used as officials, porters, craftsmen, miners
  • Most slaves came as a result of raids on non-islamic and stateless societies farther south
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