Food and slaves
Berber traders introduced written language (Arabic) and brought Islam to West Africa. This answer is brought from a direct source and is true. This is what trans-Saharan caravans brought to Ghana other than trade goods.
Berber traders introduced written language (Arabic) and brought Islam to West Africa. This answer is brought from a direct source and is true. This is what trans-Saharan caravans brought to Ghana other than trade goods.
Berber traders introduced written language (Arabic) and brought Islam to West Africa. This answer is brought from a direct source and is true. This is what trans-Saharan caravans brought to Ghana other than trade goods.
Traders would bring salt to Ghana and other things of intrest, mostley salt was traded for gold during the period of trade,
Mali is larger and has lot of golds but no salt Ghana has twice as much gold. one of them has salt and the other has gold so they could traded and they could traded for bout 500 pounds of salt for 500 pounds of gold
The merchants traded these and other goods for kola nuts, hides, leather goods, ivory, slaves, and gold from the southern forests of West Africa. Then they returned to North Africa, bringing the goods from the south to markets at home. Ghana's location allowed it to control this trans-Saharan trade
To protect help each other.
Shared colonial experiences is a unifying theme of Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has more linguistic diversity that any other region on the planet.
The Trans-Saharan trade shaped history by sharing other people's goods and beliefs that soon spread through other cultures and changed them.
As Adu Boahen has explained, the trans-Saharan caravan trade began to take place on a regular basis during the fourth century, as an expanded version of the pre-existing intra- and interregional trade among peoples of the forest, savanna, Sahel, and Sahara. While Ghana was an integral part of the early trans-Saharan trade, neither it nor any other Western Sudan state was built by, or specifically. It led to exchange of goods and services and also ideas.
because they wanted to get gold and food cause they needed it.