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What effects did this trade route have on the African continent (and beyond)? This trade route built the economies of the African city-states, spread African culture, and helped in the diffusion of religions. Written language was spread using the routes, and so were regions such as Islam.
What did they trade in North Africa?
Other items that were commonly traded included ivory, kola nuts, cloth, slaves, metal goods, and beads. As trade developed across Africa, major cities developed as centers for trade. Along the coast of North Africa sea port cities developed such as Marrakesh, Tunis, and Cairo.
How did trade affect the development of African kingdoms?
How did trade influence the development of the kingdoms and trading states of Africa? This trade helped strengthen city-states. In west African civilizations like Ghana and Mali, a major trade route was the gold-salt trade route. Ghana had a surplus of gold, and Mali had a surplus of salt.
What was a major effect of the gold salt trade in Africa?
What was a major effect of the gold-salt trade in Africa? The gold-salt trade in Africa made Ghana a powerful empire because they controlled the trade routes and taxed traders. Control of gold-salt trade routes helped Ghana, Mali, and Songhai to become large and powerful West African kingdoms.
How did trade affect the development of East African kingdom?
How did trade affect the development of East African kingdoms? Axum exported ivory, incense, and enslaved people. It imported cloth, metal goods, and olive oil. Axum fought Kush for control of trade routes to inland Africa.
How did geography influence trade West Africa?
How did geography affect trade in West Africa? Geography affected trade because there are so many regions in Africa with different resources. The different areas had to trade to get what they needed. Most communities grew or made everything they needed, and traded with other to get what they needed and hadn’t grown.
How did the Atlantic trade affect African societies?
The mass importation of guns for slaves altered the conduct of warfare in Africa and changed the balance of power between kingdoms. At the height of the Atlantic trade only states equipped with guns were able to resist attacks from their neighbours.
What was the value of the Atlantic slave trade?
Between the 1680s and the 1780s the value of Africa’s Atlantic trade rose six-fold. At its peak trade was worth £47 million. By the mid-18th century, slaves were Africa’s main export. In Western Africa the slave trade represented as much as 95 per cent of the value of their exports.
What did the Portuguese trade in West Africa?
Portuguese traders procured not only captives for export, but also various West African commodities such as ivory, peppers, textiles, wax, grain, and copper. Map of Santiago, Cape Verde, 1589, created by Giovanni Battista Boazio.
What was the impact of European trade and exploration on?
The European’s quest for economic growth and territorial expansion greatly impacted the societies of Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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🐫2 min read•november 30, 2021
AP World History 🌍
Bookmarked 17.3k • 579 resourcesThe trans-Saharan trade route transformed West Africa by connecting it to the larger parts of the world. This trade route in particular was intriguing as it required the need for human adaptation and innovation over this vast desert area.
This trade route is often overlooked but it’s actually super cool! It has all the components of a good trade network: the formation of diasporic communities, new technology, the spread of religion (Islamic traditions) and even a super rich king by the name of Mansa Musa.
Image Courtesy of Hardy-Leah B, thinglink
How did it all start?
As always, technology helped spur this trade networks. The two big ones here are camel saddles and caravans. Camel saddles helped traders (mostly Berber nomads) ride the camels (the only pack animals equipped to survive in the desert without water for long periods of time) without injury, so it was easy to carry goods faster. Caravans were groups of traders traveling together, which often protected them from desert raiders.
These technologies made this route far safer and easier to travel, and thus trans-Saharan trade flourished, carrying salt, gold, slaves, and cowrie shells, the last of which were used as currency.
The biggest religion that spread across this trade route was Islam. Over time, if African states weren’t already taken over by the Islamic caliphate, they may have converted voluntarily, with much help from the Arab Berber traders, many of whom were already converted to Islam.
Additionally, empires with valued goods expanded rapidly during this flourishing of the trade route, such as the Mali, Ghana, and Songhai empires.
Mali in West Africa in particular became one of the richest empires in the region due to its large supply in gold-- so rich, in fact, that when their king Mansa Musa made his pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca every place he stopped along the way became so flooded with gold that their economies inflated drastically. That’s how rich this guy was-- he could literally give out so much gold that it could crash an entire city’s economy.