WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Trade was conducted by caravans of camels. According to Ibn Battuta, the explorer who accompanied one of the caravans, the average size per caravan was 1, 000 camels, but some caravans were as large as 12, 000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trading across the Sahara Desert increased with the use of camel caravans. Camels could carry heavy loads and did not need to drink water on a daily basis. Salt, gold, iron, copper and spices were just some of the items traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Crossing the Sahara Desert from the 8th to the 16th centuries, caravans with hundreds of camels carried gold, textiles, salt, jewelry and other precious goods across the desert.

Detailed explanation-4: -Caravans. Muslim traders from North Africa shipped goods across the Sahara using large camel caravans-on average, about 1, 000 camels, although there’s a record which mentions caravans traveling between Egypt and Sudan that had 12, 000 camels. The Berbers of North Africa first domesticated camels around the year 300 CE.