The Ancient Greek golden age<span> occurs under the leadership of Pericles in the 5th century BCE. These achievements were mainly confined to the city-state of Athens, where a strong economy and good government created the conditions necessary for such advancements.</span>
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Gold Trade and the Kingdom of Ancient Ghana
<span>Around the fifth century, thanks to the availability of the camel, Berber-speaking people began crossing the Sahara Desert. From the eighth century onward, annual trade caravans followed routes later described by Arabic authors with minute attention to detail. Gold, sought from the western and central Sudan, was the main commodity of the trans-Saharan trade. The traffic in gold was spurred by the demand for and supply of coinage. The rise of the </span>Soninke empire of Ghana<span> appears to be related to the beginnings of the trans-Saharan gold trade in the fifth century.
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