The West African kingdoms developed trade from the iron industry smelting tools and weapons. This trade was small until the camel came alone with Mediterranean goods been found in pits as far south as Northern Nigeria.
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West Africa is significant for African-American history because of the slave trade. Most slaves arriving in America were from West and Central Africa.
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the african american exodusters migrated west to North Africa to get rid of the Jews because they had bad a bad disease called AIDS. This is how the Holocaust happened.
The "Great Three" West African empires were Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
The people that carried goods from Europe to west African empires were Portuguese people.
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The West African trade empires made their money mainly by trading slaves, salt and gold.
The Songhai Empire
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The ancient empires phase of West African history came first
The main sources of wealth and power of all the West African empires was the armies they built whose superior iron weapons let them take control of the trade in salt and gold.
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Songhai
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They served as tranportation across the Sahara dessert