What role did resources and trade play in West Africa?

Answer 1

Trans-Saharan trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan ... Culture and religion were also exchanged on the Trans-Saharan Trade Route. ... Shillington proceeds to identify this trade route as the source for West African iron smelting. Trade ... The impact of the slave trade on Africa.

Answer 2

Villagers traded any surplus. Gold was plentiful in present-day Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal. In return West Africans had salt. People need salt to prevent dehydration and there was a heavy abundance of salt in some places. However in places like the savanna, salt was scarce. A block of salt was easily worth its weight in gold.

Answer 3

Africa was transformed due to the trade. Because of it, Timbuktu was founded and established, the spread of Islam became greater, three medieval kingdoms arose, internal trade also arose, and lastly, the northern and southern areas of the Sahara became significant for different things. Above the Sahara were gold, ivory, koala nuts, and below the Sahara was black gold (male slaves).

Answer 4

Resources in West Africa during the colonial, post-colonial, even modern period determined the overall makeup of transportation infrastructure layout. Most of the time roads and rail connected factories or mines deeper in the continent with distribution ports on the coasts. After these nations became independent they found it difficult to adapt existing infrastructures like a normal country would. This became just another legacy of the colonial period.

Answer 5

Islam affected the trade in West Africa in a way that anything that looked down upon Islam couldn't be trade. Such as items representing a different philosophy or religion.

Answer 6

It led to the introduction of new items like guns and.People who participated in the trade gained alot