Objective 2: Analyze Trade Patterns of the Mali and East African Territories
- Mali benefited greatly from trans-Saharan trade.
- Mali controlled and taxed almost all trade passing through west Africa.
- Mail had trading linked to North Africa.
- Mali did a lot of gold trading.
- Mali greatly supported Islam and Muslim merchants were given many amenities.
- Mali's gold trade eventually spread all the way into the Mediterranean.
- Trade routes would begin around the location of modern day Nigeria, head through the Saharan Desert, and end up in places like modern day Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
- The trade routes of Mali were what is called trans-Saharan, meaning that they all went through the Sahara.
- Maritime trade was very common in East Africa.
- Merchant mariners accomplished this trade using the sea-lanes of the Indian Ocean.
- Over the years, East Africa was able to trade with Indians, Persians, Hellenistic and Roman peoples, and Malay seafarers.
- Many Bantu peoples inhabited East Africa and traded with what they hunted, fished, and foraged.
- Many people departed from the Red Sea in order to trade with East Africa.
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