Pre-Historic Africa Berbers GOLD SALT Gold-Salt Trade.

Pre-Historic Africa

Berbers

GOLDGOLD

SALTSALT

Gold-Salt Trade

Gold “Money”, Ghana/Ivory Coast

Ghana Empire [4c-11c]

Salt

Mali Empire [13c-15c]

GOLDGOLD

SALTSALT

Timbuktu-”Heavenly Clay”

Timbuktu Rooftop, Mosque

Berbers

Mosque in Gao

Great Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Distant Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Sundiata [1210-1260]

“Lion Prince”

Mansa Musa [r. 1312-1337]

European Map

Songhai Empire [15c-16c]

GOLDGOLD

SALTSALT

Sunni Ali [r.1464-1492]

Askia Mohammed [r.1493-1529]

Askia Mohammed’s Tomb [1443-1538]

Gao, Mali

Islamic

Invasions