The Ottoman Turks did at one time.
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There are many trade routes in Africa. These routes were used as routes for trade and often times for travel.
controlled trade routes between asia and europe -apex
Europeans had to find new trade routes to the East because the Ottoman Empire controlled and taxed existing routes.
The Ottoman Empire and Venice controlled existing trade routes to Asia and made European merchants pay taxes.
The Muslim world tended to play an intermediary role in world trade. They controlled the overland trading routes between Europe and Asia. Until the voyages of exploration and discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, they also controlled the sea routes between Africa and Asia.
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The Mediterranean sea, and Atlantic and Indian oceans provided trade routes between Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The Kingdom of Mali controlled trade routes which had previously been controlled by the Kingdom of Ghana.
The Triangular Trade routes were either from Britain to Africa, America to Britain, America to Africa, or other routes that lead to either Africa, America, or Britain
The Greek City that controlled the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea was Troy. The city was founded in 3000 BC and abandoned in 500 AD.
There are many trade routes in Africa. These routes were used as routes for trade and often times for travel.
Trade routes
they intiated the cultivation of west africa, which started the slave trade (transatlantic trade) (triangular trade) between w. africa, usa, and britain. it also brought a lot of religious ideas to them as well as guns for the first time
Silk road.
Constantinople, or before that, Byzantium.