The African civilizations would trade things like gold, horses, different art, slaves, ivory and salt. These were very popular trading exports and some of the imports were weapons, cloths, ceramics, raw meats, iron and
Eric Pappas Mrs. Turk Trade Networks LEQ May 17/18, 2023 Throughout the third-wave era, numerous trade routes were open and thriving all over the world. Major trade routes included The Silk Road, The Sea Roads, The American Trade Network, and the Sand Roads. The trade routes were able to transport various goods throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South America, ranging from ideas in medicine to Silk and Gold. The trading routes all worked together to help foster the spread of culture and innovations.
Then the transport of manufactured goods and slaves traveled to North America from Africa to produce the goods of Cash Crops Cargo of products which were tobacco and Gunpowder that were exported to Africa. Products
Great Britain and South Saharan Africa imports and exports document E shows that the African colony wasn 't the best with money instead they would trade which is the main reason the Europeans took over. Imports from Africa were less while exports rose high. Great Britain made up to three million British pounds in 1854 and twenty-one in 1900 from import and export. African slaves were additionally being used to work British owned plantations in the colonies. Over all trading was a link to natural resources.
As they proceeded to trade the slaves, some African rulers refused to trade anything for the slaves so the merchants had to create new trade routes, avoiding the rulers. This soon became known as the triangular trade, where over different routes, Europeans transported goods to the West coast of Africa where traders exchanged the goods for captured African slaves. Later, enslaved Africans were then brought across the Atlantic and sold in the West Indies where they traded them in return for sugar, coffee, and tobacco, and sailed the Europe with the new profits. This is an example of just one of the many triangular routes used from 1451-1870. This trade system linked the West Indies, England, Europe, and Africa and allowed a variety of goods to be shared.
New ideas and goods were traded along a network of trade routes known as the Silk Road. These routes connected China to the Middle East, which was then connected to Europe. Throughout the Silk Road, there was a large network of strategically located trading posts, markets, and thoroughfares designed to streamline the transport, exchange, and distribution of goods. This allowed for the efficient exchange of fruits and vegetables, livestock, grain, leather and hides, tools, religious objects, artwork, precious stones and metals, and language, culture, religious beliefs, philosophy, and science. Additionally, commodities such as paper and gunpowder, were also among the most-traded items between the East and West.
Because of these demands workers were needed to plant and harvest plantation fields filled with product. This is where Africa contributes slaves into the Columbian Exchange. People in Africa were sold into slavery and shipped to Europe, Asia, and the Americas. This however was not something modern, for hundreds of years Europeans and Asians sailed to Africa to buy and kidnap slaves.
In the 18th century, there was the Atlantic Triangular Trade. This trading route involved Africa, Europe and the Americas trading back and forth to each other, which essentially formed a triangle (hence the name). Between Africa and North America, slaves, meat, fish, lumber, rum and grain went to and fro. Africa sold it's people into slavery in return for said goods. To America, this was an admirable trade.
These trade routes facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures across many different regions of the world, and helped to establish a new era of global commerce.
Gold trade was a major benefactor that led up to this cultural mixing. Islamic migration brought coral architecture which displayed houses of made of huge blocks of coral. This was very different to the usually mud stone bricks created traditionally in Africa. With Islam control much of the middle east it helped link Africa and India where merchants could sail boats to the Arabian peninsula or to the horn of Africa with multiple stops on the way. Swahili was on the coast allowing it to have many port towns that opened trade into Africa and accepted India goods.
Products There were many goods that people traded. Some of the the common products included rice, tobacco, and wheat. Most of those resources were much needed to survive, but chewing on tobacco was a habit for most of the people in Colonial times. Tobacco was the most popular good to trade. Some of the items were unusuale like pickled
Trade played a huge role in the development of West Africa until the 15th century. This assisted in trading across trade routes to areas, which were very faraway, such as Europe. The dominant thing that they traded was mainly salt and gold. In West Africa, there were various gold mines which provided West African Empires with great wealth, and a large trade commodity. There were less valuable items that were traded such as cloth, ivory, metal goods, and unfortunately, slaves.
- From traveling to creating colonies, the trading system grew. Since there were abundant resources and materials, the European nations had trade networks set up.
The African and European Slave Trade Ahdeyah Vance Central High School November 9, 2015 3rd Period Abstract The European and African slave trade was important, without the Africans and Europeans we would not have had a New World. They begin to develop what we called the New World in the Americas. The Europeans and Africans also developed products such as sugar.
They were being brought in by ships from western africa to be used on the sugar plantations. “At the time of the American Revolution there was widespread support in the northern American colonies for prohibiting the importation of more slaves. ”(Lewis 2017). The Trans-Atlantic expanded by coming up with a way to trade slaves and materials. The triangular trade route, which is a three way system of trade.
