WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Trans-Saharan trade, conducted across the Sahara Desert, was a web of commercial interactions between the Arab world (North Africa and the Persian Gulf) and sub-Saharan Africa. The main objects of this trade were gold and salt; gold was in abundance in the western part of Africa, but scarce in North Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Silk Road was a land-based network of trade routes that stretched from East Asia to the Mediterranean. The Trans-Saharan trade, on the other hand, was a land-based network of trade routes that stretched across the Sahara Desert.