West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold in the Middle Ages. Trade in the metal went back to antiquity but when the camel caravans of the Sahara linked North Africa to the savannah interior, the trade really took off. A succession of great African empires rose off the back of the gold trade as salt, ivory, and slaves were just some of the commodities exchanged for the precious metal that eventually found its way into most of southern Europe's gold coinage. Gold attracted unwanted attention and competition, too, with the Portuguese the first to exploit West Africa's coastal resources from the 15th century CE, and in their wake followed others. The discovery of the Americas and the gold of the Aztecs and Incas only gave West Africa a temporary respite as European colonial powers then returned to the continent as their chief source of slaves to work on the plantations of the New World. The trade of gold in West Africa goes back to antiquity with one of the earliest examples being the voyage of the Carthaginian explorer Hanno in the 5th century BCE. The celebrated mariner sailed out of the Mediterranean and, turning south, stopped off at the mouth of the Senegal River before sailing on and perhaps even reaching as far the Bay of Guinea. Hanno was followed by other countrymen, and commercial relations were established with the locals. Thus, West African gold found its way from the trading post/island of Cerne (unidentified but on the Atlantic coast) northwards to the ancient Mediterranean cultures for the first time.
The 5th-century BCE Greek historian Herodotus describes in his Histories that gold was traded on the West African coast using a silent and cautious method of barter - perhaps understandable given the language barrier and mutual fear between unfamiliar peoples. Hope this helps! Mark brainly please!
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the Coup D’etats were a very violent group of people
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Marathon and Plataea
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The Persian Wars saw the great Persian army face-off against the smaller and divided Greece in an attempt to invade and conquer them. The Greek city-states had to unite themselves and fight the Persians even though they were outnumbered.
Sparta, who were very strong militarily united with Athens who had an impressive fleet of naval ships, and together they defied all odds to win the battles at Marathon and Plataea.
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Hoovervilles were shantytowns which appeared during the great depression for unemployed people who were evicted from their homes.
The term "Hooverville" comes from the president in turn during this economic crisis Herbert Hoover, who was therefore widely blamed for it.
as the depression worsened, hundreds of thousands of people settled in hoovervilles, mainly at the skirts of big cities during the decade from 1930 to 1940
In 1932 president Hoover lost the election to Frankling Roosevelt whose new administration helped lift US out of the great depression. Hoovervilles were eventually torn down in the early 1940´s
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The greatest effect of the European intrusion into the Americas was to increase the Indian and mestizo population through intermarriage with the whites. The primary cause of the massive population decline among native Americans after the European arrival was not warfare but disease.
