Urban Commerce Develops in the Sudan Belt
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Economics
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Trade, Commerce, Cities, Urbanization, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Sudan, Niger
- Date: c. 1000 -c. 300
Article abstract: Inhabitants of Africa’s Sudan Belt cities and towns had extensive contacts with the Mediterranean regions through trade in a wide variety of goods, of which the most important were salt and gold.
Summary of Event
Geographers and historians define the Sudan belt of the ancient world as the area that extends from the Sahara in the north to the Bay of Niger (present-day southern Nigeria) in the south and from the Atlantic in the east to the Indian Ocean in the west. In the western part of this broad environmental region, in a subregion...
[The entire page is 1034 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
