Salt from the Sahara desert was one of the major trade goods of ancient West Africa where very little naturally occurring deposits of the mineral could be found. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1342/the-salt-trade-of-ancient-west-africa/ #History #Berbers #GhanaEmpire #Hausaland

West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold in the Middle Ages. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1383/the-gold-trade-of-ancient--medieval-west-africa/ #History #GhanaEmpire #Gold #Hausaland

Following the conquest of North Africa by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century CE, Islam spread throughout West Africa via merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries, that is largely through peaceful means whereby African rulers either tolerated the religion or converted to it themselves. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1382/the-spread-of-islam-in-ancient-africa/ #History #Africa #GhanaEmpire #Hausaland

Salt from the Sahara desert was one of the major trade goods of ancient West Africa where very little naturally occurring deposits of the mineral could be found. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1342/the-salt-trade-of-ancient-west-africa/ #History #Berbers #GhanaEmpire #Hausaland

Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa from 1312 to 1337. Controlling territories rich in gold and copper, and monopolising trade between the north and interior of the continent, Mali grew extremely wealthy. Mansa Musa was said to have spent so much gold in Cairo that the value of bullion crashed by 20%.
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The camel caravans which crossed the great dunes of the Sahara desert began in antiquity but reached their golden period from the 9th century CE onwards. In their heyday caravans consisted of thousands of camels travelling from North Africa, across the desert to the savannah region in the south and back again, in a hazardous journey that could take several months. Stopping along the way at vita...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1344/the-camel-caravans-of-the-ancient-sahara/ #Camel #GhanaEmpire #Hausaland

Sundiata Keita (aka Sunjaata or Sundjata, r. 1230-1255 CE) was the founder of the Mali Empire (1240-1645 CE) in West Africa. A prince of the Malinke tribe, Sundiata would not only overthrow the rule of the kingdom of Sosso (c. 1180-1235 CE), the biggest inheritor of the crumbling Ghana Empire (6th -13th century CE), but go on to conquer neighbouring kingdoms, establish stable government from hi...https://www.worldhistory.org/Sundiata_Keita/ #GhanaEmpire #MaliEmpire #MansaMusaI