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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] As you have pointed out soldiers were important and mercenary soldiers and guards and everything, so both soldiers and merchants were part of this The second quote bellow I take as evidence that many of these "Nubian" soldiers were not slaves but rather enlisted men. The first quote talks about rulers using merchants to further their schemes in global affairs I believe that superb soldiery alone cannot explain these kinds of relations “Medieval Christian Nubia and the Islamic World: A Reconsideration of the Baqt Treaty” by Jay Spaulding http://www.jstor.org/pss/221175 Page 590 we also learn some about “Nubian” merchants [QUOTE] [b]Meanwhile some Nubian subjects themselves, especially from the northern zone of special status, had also become private merchants and had begun to conduct their own commercial ventures northward into Egypt. The Nubian king attempted to maintain his hold over subjects living abroad, and to profit from their private commerce, by negotiating an arrangement according to when a royal Makurian agent was authorized to reside and to travel within the Islamic caliphate in order to collect taxes from the Nubians living abroad.[/b] [/QUOTE]Page 593 [QUOTE] [b]No figures whatsoever exist concerning the magnitude of this trade at any period; yet without such data, no remotely plausible assessment of total slave exports is possible. Even in the absence of absolute numbers, however, it is possible to challenge the assertion by Cliometricians that most slaves exported from the Northeast Africa to the Islamic Orient were female, for the claim is difficult to reconcile with a source literature from medieval Egypt in which corps of black male military slaves are conspicuous while Africa females are not. The actual primary evidence on the question is perhaps instructive; the one known baqt shipment in the form of slaves by an independent Makurian monarch comprised one male and one female.[/b][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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