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It started around the 1430s and ended in the late 1800s.

West Africa was a part of a major trading network long before the Europeans.

From ancient times there were trade routes across the Sahara linking the north and west of the African continent. Large cities developed along the Saharan trade routes. The trade lead to the growth of great empires in the region.

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