HIST 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Santa Barbara City College, Trans-Saharan Trade, Ethiopian Highlands
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Tiff is their cereal crop, making them an original domesticator of plants. Coffee is a huge commodity from them. Ark of the covenant, they claim relics from the christian world. Smaller kingdom, so the king can do it easier. Carved out of a cliff face, done through paid labor actually instead of enslavement. Extraction of luxury goods like ivory, gold, hides. By the ocean so they get wheat from other civs, they had sorghum before. States develop by the trans saharan trade network. Kinda like the steppe of central eurasia. But it doesn"t become a silk road because. Floods the economy of cairo with gold. Everybodya writes in chinese because it is the only developed writing. Some people modified the kanji to make it into a japanese phonetic. Doesn"t originate from the rich men who are invested in the. Tale of genji (written by a woman- murasaki shikubu) Tang china has a nomadic cavalry bc they have steppe nomad conflict.
