Decline of Trans-Sahara Trade

The Trans Sahara Trade means the business across the Sahara among countries Mediterranean and Saharan Africa. Formed between the fifth and the, the Sahara desert rose up as a huge barrier for men between the North and South Africa. Despite the difficulties to cross the disparities in resources between regions with contrasting climates have been a great attraction for trade saw the emergence of a first trans-Saharan trade, activated by Phoenician on the south shore of the Mediterranean Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians and Romans traded with Central Africa for ivory, ostrich feathers and slaves across the Sahara and ...