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This map is derived from the book periplus of the erythraean sea. The theory of chariot routes became soon widely accepted, and it is still found in numerous general histories of africa, although severe criticism. Historic transsaharan trade routes, 8th to 19th centuries. While ghana was an integral part of the early transsaharan trade, neither it nor. Austen estimates that perhaps 4 million people were enslaved in this transsaharan trade from 800 to 1900 ce. The conditions just described pertain to the sahara and its surrounding lands in historical times, but it is important. Thereafter, the gold trade was the centrepiece of the transsaharan trade. The goods being traded along this route are simple. Transsaharan trade routes illustration ancient history. A trade route is a logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo.

Mattingly ultimately conceives the saharan trade system as fluctuating. Later, ancient romans would protect the route by lining it with varied forts and small outposts, some guarding large settlements complete with cultivation. The camel caravans of the ancient sahara ancient history. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century. Pdf a historical geography of the transsaharan trade. The history of the ghana empire is obscure and much of what we know about it is derived from arab. Sources are limited on this route compared to the others ibn battuta was the first person to go from north of the sahara and back and write about it and he died in 69. This study explores the history of transsaharan trade in western africa in the. Transsaharan trade routes the really large camel caravans that travelled the minimum kilometres 620 miles to cross the entire sahara desert really took off from the 8th century ce with the rise of islamic north african states and such empires as the ghana empire of the sudan region 6thth century ce. The transsaharan trade route from north africa to west africa was actually made up of a number of routes, providing a crisscross of trading links across the vast expanse of desert. As adu boahen has explained, the transsaharan caravan trade began to take place on a regular basis during the fourth century, as an expanded version of the preexisting intra and interregional trade among peoples of the forest, savanna, sahel, and sahara. The desert is a geographical barrier which requires complex organisation to cross those who crossed it laid the foundations of some of the most important states in west african. Ahmed baba lived from 1556 to 1627, and wrote over 40 books in his lifetime.

Addressing the unavoidable challenge that much of this book faces. Aug 12, 2016 lesson plans, videos, photos, images, letters, ect. The book also examines the methods employed by women participating in. Many kingdoms flourished because of these trade routes. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. The prosperity and power of the ghana empire flourished on the transsaharan trade route the ghana empire was the first of the great west african empires that existed during the middle ages. While ghana was an integral part of the early transsaharan trade, neither it nor any other. The complex network of medieval and early modern caravan routes 8th to 19th century, within which the transsaharan book trade flourished. Ajayi and michae tidy, topics in west african history, second edition. Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains longdistance arteries, which may further be connected to smaller networks of commercial and noncommercial transportation routes. In libya and algeria, from at least 7000 bc, there was pastoralism, the. Transsaharan trade requires travel across the sahara north and south to reach subsaharan africa from the north african coast, europe, to the levant. During the 5001590 period, routes rose and declined in importance. A map indicating the major transsaharan trade routes across west africa c.