HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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salt and gold
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silk and wool
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grains and oils
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books and writing utensils
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Detailed explanation-1: -Salt, gold, and slaves were the essential commodities throughout the 500-1590 period. Cloth also became an important trade good. A viable cloth-production industry began around the eleventh century in Djenné, Takrur, Timbuktu, and Gao and lasted well into the eighteenth century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Trans-Saharan Trade, also known as the Gold-Salt Trade, was an extensive network of trade routes that linked the Mediterranean world with West Africa during the Middle Ages. The trade routes facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures between the people of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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: -Arab merchants brought these goods to Roman markets by means of camel caravans along the Incense Route. The Incense Route originally commenced at Shabwah in Hadhramaut, the easternmost kingdom of South Arabia, and ended at Gaza, a port north of the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea.