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Ivory trade in Ghana, 1690. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for millennia with records going back to the 14th century BCE.Transport of the heavy commodity was always difficult, and with the establishment of the early-modern slave trades from East and West Africa, freshly captured slaves were used to carry the heavy tusks to the ports where both the tusks and their ...
The slave trade, in particular, had little effect on the peoples of Ivory Coast. [7] A profitable trade in ivory existed in the 17th century and gave the area its name. [7] However, the resulting decline in elephant population ended the ivory trade by the beginning of the 18th century. [7]
These routes connected West Africa with North Africa and the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of gold, salt, ivory, and slaves. The gold from the regions around the Niger River was particularly prized in the Mediterranean and beyond, making West Africa a crucial player in the global economy of the time.
Founded c. 800 BCE, Carthage became one terminus for West African gold, ivory, and slaves. West Africa received salt, cloth, beads, and metal goods. Shillington proceeds to identify this trade route as the source for West African iron smelting. [17] Trade continued into Roman times.
With the newly established ivory trade in sub-Saharan Africa, African ivory began appearing in medieval Europe. This is in larger part to the Muslim presence and trade in central Africa. Portugal, enamored by the prospect of African ivory began searching for alternate sources that did not involve trading with the Muslims. [2] As a result ...
African maritime trade involved a wide range of goods that were highly valued in international markets. From the East African coast, gold, ivory, and slaves were prominent exports. In return, African traders received textiles, ceramics, spices, and other luxury goods from Arabia, India, and beyond.
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
Ivory, in particular, was a significant export of east Africa (originating from overland trade routes through the African interior), leading Chirikure (2022) to label the western leg of the trade route as the "Maritime Ivory Route". [21] It was also not small-scale trade or high value-low volume trade as some earlier historians had assumed.