Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

11206 Sunbin Kim11220 Jason Lee

Table of Contents

Location of trade Routes

Climate & location

Merchants who traded in the trans-saharan routes

Goods that were traded

“Ideas” that were traded

North African coast, Europe to the sub-Saharan Africa

Location of the trade routes

Climate & location

• Dry & Arid -> So WHAT???!!!

Who traded in the trans-saharan routes ??

Muslim

Arab

Goods that were traded

Gold

Salt

Slave

“Ideas” that were traded

Islam -> West Africa

Arab Merchants

Saharan caravan routes

Koran & written Arabic language