Some items for which the salt was traded include gold, ivory, slaves, skins, kola nuts, pepper, and sugar.

Trans-Saharan Trade, also known as the Gold-Salt Trade, was an extensive network of trade routes that linked the Mediterranean world with West Africa during ...

6 мар. 2019 г. · Whoever controlled the salt trade also controlled the gold trade, & both were the principal economic pillars of various West African empires.

7 дней назад · Also in West Africa, gold mined south of the Sahel was traded, pound for pound, for salt mined in the desert. This sounds doubtful, ...

The Gold-Salt Trade refers to the exchange of gold and salt between West African kingdoms and North African traders, which was a major economic activity ...

The Gold-Salt trade was the trade of sub-Saharan African gold for salt from the Sahara to the north. In this trade, the value of precious metals was placed ...

From the seventh to the eleventh century, trans-Saharan trade linked the Mediterranean economies that demanded gold—and could supply salt—to the sub-Saharan ...

The gold/salt trade refers to the significant exchange of gold and salt across the Trans-Saharan trade routes, which connected sub-Saharan Africa with North ...

27 сент. 2024 г. · The gold-salt trade is often considered one of the most significant economic exchanges in medieval African history.