The introduction of the camel to Western Sahara as part of the trade with salt and gold to the trans-Saharan in the 3rd century A.D. gave way to great changes in the area that became<span> the </span>Ghana Empire<span>.</span>
The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which devastated families through lost means of survival and caused personal suffering; landowners who used labourers as tenant farmers were also affected.
