the mali empire which the babbar has traded with enjoyed abundant wealth thanks to the book and were a mines zest dids the gold trade and slavery were closely like a gold trade and slavery were closely linked. local it's usually said that both grew into. a downward slavery was in fact hidden beneath for. the threat that slavery posed to the survival of the malenka country full of the better to be men and women of. themselves prohibited slavery it you know edition of the country's prosperity for a century them for a century the molly and higher reigned over all of western africa leaving behind the deserts greatest library. in timber housing medieval manuscripts are preserved them down from. the. threatened with destruction tens of thousands of moran reveals how western africa. thanks to merchant contacts between arab areas and african elites muslim culture gradually spread among inhabited and habitants of the sahara region south of the sahara to the point where. and they can benefit from the slum the compiler. which is access to that big market that was controlled by the islamic empir

the mali empire which the babbar has traded with enjoyed abundant wealth thanks to the bamboo and were a mines it possessed the world's largest gold reserves more than half of the precious metal circulating in the mediterranean originated from these deposits. throughout the history of. trade between north and south for the. slaves who were. there. and gold was always in the soft one feeds the other middle of a you know adonis was the d.f.t. good gold mining and african societies was mainly done by captives don't because the gold trade and slavery were closely linked. while i believe that gold may have predated slavery up with the chronology is unclear and luckily it's usually said that both grew in significance at the same time. they don't have it slavery was in fact hidden behind the gold trade. d.c. . i think that. some of the sunday caters generals never gave up this lucrative business that effect that but the fact is so they did make a number of efforts to intervene with them. he reminded his fellow countrymen of the threat that slavery posed to the survival of the malenka country

the sahara to connect both ends of the desert merchants had to follow the caravan route right along babbar territory and pass through the sea. down this. siege of massa before arriving in timbuktu the deserts last stop and the gateway to the mali empire. heading this immense empire was in john talk asia king of kings and its founding fathers. victory in the great battle of 2 rina in 1235 enabled him to unite all of the regions peoples and form a massive commercial network along the banks of the niger. martin. arabs and barbarous established a trading post in timbuktu from where they maintain trade relations with this centralized empire. they bartered salt fabric jewelry and mediterranean dates in return for ivory copper slaves and most importantly gold. reorganize trade tried to build up into regional relations in order to protect his empires interests. and so organizing regional and to regional trade was one of his greatest accomplishments a result. even have provided the foundations for the mali empire fall because of. the number for the modem up to the one. timbuktu's importance stems f