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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by capra: [qb] So, Ish Gebor, you don't actually know the answer? You are just wasting my time telling me stuff I already know? To clarify, the part that's very hard to believe isn't that there could be Kpelle in Sudan. It's that the Kpelle and the Bamileke and whoever else are all supposed to have migrated from Egypt or Sudan to West Africa *less than a thousand years ago*. [/qb][/QUOTE]What I stated was meant in broader terms of interaction between groups. I have explained why it is not a strange possibility. That is the answer, but it doesn't sit well with you, obviously. Despite your lack on ethnography and history of Africa. The Kpelle is not even of my concern here. Neither am I claiming that the Kpelle migrated to West Africa from Egypt. [QUOTE] Trans-Saharan Trade The importance that contact with the Islamic world held for these empires cannot be understated. While extensive trading networks undoubtedly predated Arabic involvement, the development of trans-Saharan commerce in the seventh century by Arabs and Berbers intensified and expanded the trading networks that made the empires of the western Sudan possible. The savanna region is naturally hospitable to both agriculture and livestock breeding and is ideally situated for trade. An easily traversed region separating radically different environments, each possessing resources and products badly needed by the other, it is likely that the savanna was an important trading arena long before the first camel caravans arrived from northern Africa (third to fourth century A.D.). Although a rich diversity of goods were exchanged, all the empires of the western Sudan were primarily based upon control of the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt. Gold, mined predominantly in southern West Africa, was much sought after by both African rulers and traders bound for northern Africa and Europe. Salt was essential in the regions south of the Sahara both as a dietary supplement and a preservative. Strategically located between southern gold-producing regions and Saharan salt mines like Taghaza, the kingdoms of the western Sudan were well positioned to amass great wealth through the taxation of imports and exports. [/QUOTE] http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wsem/hd_wsem.htm [/QB][/QUOTE]
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