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Trade webs: Silk Road and Sahara — Homework
Answer in complete sentences.
- 1.What two goods were exchanged across the Sahara Desert?
- 2.About how many miles did the Silk Road network stretch, and which two ends did it connect?
- 3.Why was the camel essential to trans-Saharan trade?
- 4.Explain why goods on the Silk Road usually changed hands many times instead of one trader carrying them the whole distance.
- 5.Write a paragraph tracing a bar of gold's journey from a West African mine to a Mediterranean market, naming at least two things that happen to it along the way.
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