The Indian Ocean trade involved the Swahili Coast (along Eastern Africa), the Spice Islands (Southeastern Asia), India, China, and the Middle East. The Trans-Saharan trade involved the Western Africa empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, in that order, and Northern Africa. They also interacted with the Arabs. The Indian Ocean traded mainly traded cotton cloth, textiles, and spices like pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Trans-Saharan trade exchanged mostly gold from Northern Africa for salt in Western Africa. It also traded ivory, slaves, and exotic animals. Most of the Mediteranean and Arab peninsular took part intrading between East and West Africa. Although this is fairlybroad. Many of the goods especially gold and salt probably traveledas far as Persia and all of Europe. Even reaching the silk road toChina and Mongolia. The chief traders where merchants from Nomadiclike tribes from North Western Africa called the Berbers and ArabicNomadic tribes from Eastern Africa to Arab peninsular using camals,though the main traders where Western Africans that actuallyextracted the gold and salt and delivered it to the Berbers andArabs. These people where part of several empires called Mali ,Ghana, and the Songhai.
Germany was out numbered by the other opposing countries, while their allies were surrendering.
Many colonists felt that they should not pay these taxes, because they were passed in England By Parliament, not by their own colonial governments. And they pay taxes to important tea.
Freedmen needed to decide where to live and how to support themselves. Many also searched for lost family members. Not all were young or healthy enough to leave the plantations where they had been living. Some struggled with poverty and illness.
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Answers will vary but should touch on the fact that Black people had been "given" land to work during the War, which was now scheduled to revert back to the antebellum owners, and Black people were protesting this as unfair. Reflections should include a reference to the fact that the federal government had issued amnesty or pardons to the former landowners, so the case of ownership was not clear-cut. Reflections should also discuss the lack of options for Black people who were cheated, subjected to physical violence, or otherwise denied the rights they thought had been secured with the end of the war.