What was the trans-Saharan trade network? The communities of West Africa were involved in an important trade route northwards. ... This trade (called the trans-Saharan trade because it crossed the Sahara desert) alsoincluded slaves. The slaves, usually captured as prisoners of war, were sold ...
Reflect the extent of trans-saharan trade network INTRODUCTIONTradeacross the Sahara goes back at least one thousand years before the beginning of our period- perhaps many thousands of years. People often speak and write of ‘Africa South of the Sahara’ as if the Sahara was a frontier that ...
What century was the slave trade? What factors led to the Atlantic slave trade? In the colonial trade network, what did European countries provide? What did New France trade? What did ships transport on the Middle Passage? Identify and explain two ways in which merchants such as Pire...
A major resolution adopted by conference participants was the need to create a network of researchers on the slave trade and slavery in the Arab and Islamic worlds. A similar network has already been created by UNESCO around the trans-Atlantic slave trade. ...
The interpolation analyses and complete sequencing of present mtDNA sub-Saharan lineages observed in North Africa support the genetic impact of recent trans-Saharan migrations, namely the slave trade initiated by the Arab conquest of North Africa in the seventh century. Sub-Saharan people did not lea...
Our current state of knowledge concerning the position of Kush within an extensive trade network will be summarized to highlight the rich body of data from which connections to other regions can be identified. The technology of iron production will then be used to expl...