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The Trans-Saharan Caravan: Gold, Salt, and the Sahel
We left Timbuktu in Episode 200, but the city was only the destination, not the engine. This episode explores the arduous journey across the Sahara itself—the trans-Saharan trade routes that connected West Africa to the Mediterranean world for over a millennium. We follow the camel caravans led by Berber guides, tracing the flow of gold from Wangara to the silver mines of North Africa. You will meet Ibn Battuta, whose travel writings offer one of our most vivid accounts of these perilous desert crossings, and we examine how the control of salt mines like Taghaza became a matter of imperial…
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