How did North Africa Communicate with the rest of Africa? - Ancient and Medieval Africa

How Did the Trans-Saharan Trade Route Actually Work?

For hundreds of years, merchants with valuable goods traveled across the largest hot desert of the planet. Surrounded by a harsh environment they managed to buy and sell… and create what we today know as the Trans-Saharan Trade Route…

Trade can be credited with much of the world’s growth over century upon century. Goods, food, language, religion, cultures, and so forth have been spread across the globe by merchants and the routes they cross. Routes across Asia, Europe, and even overseas have made it all possible - but one in particular often fails to receive the proper credit that it’s due. The Trans-Saharan Trade Route was crucial…

Properly described as a network of paths and not one specific trail, the Trans-Saharan Trade Route was a web of roads connecting Northern Africa to its Sub-Saharan neighbors.


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