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![]() Trans-Saharan Africa in World History Ralph A. Austen HISTORY 2010 PAPER 176 PAGES COMING IN APRIL
Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of the African world that grew out of more than 1,000 years of trans-Saharan trading. During the heyday of camel caravan traffic -- from the arrival of Islam in North Africa in the eighth century to the early 20th-century building of European colonial railroads linking the Sudan with the Atlantic -- the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan.
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