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Gold-Salt Trade: The Key to West African Empires

You are now living in West Africa. Today is Friday, Oct. 3, 500 AD. Rank the following items in order of their importance to you: Oil Gold Salt Ivory Spices. Gold-Salt Trade: The Key to West African Empires. Resources are unevenly distributed West Africa lacked salt

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Gold-Salt Trade: The Key to West African Empires

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  1. You are now living in West Africa. Today is Friday, Oct. 3, 500 AD. Rank the following items in order of their importance to you: • Oil • Gold • Salt • Ivory • Spices

  2. Gold-Salt Trade:The Key to West African Empires

  3. Resources are unevenly distributed • West Africa lacked salt • worth more than gold!! VERSUS • Taghaza were people used salt to build homes

  4. The Gold-Salt Trade • 3rd to 4th century AD • Routes from Middle East and North Africa to West Africa • Cross through the Sahara • Salt from the North • Gold from the South

  5. The Gold & Salt Trade Routes The Gold-Salt Exchange

  6. A Camel Caravan

  7. How did they know where to go? • moved at night (used the stars for direction) • used land to reach oases Threats • Lack of water • Sandstorm

  8. Predict three Impacts of the Gold-Salt trade Political Social Economic Religious

  9. Impacts • Spread of Islam • Wealthy Empires • Taxation • Expansion of towns along the trade route • Timbuktu, the center of trade

  10. Trade today similar to gold-salt trade? • Impacts of trade the same? Different?

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