Commerce/trading

Trade was important because it connected people, economy was also a big factor because people would cultivate and sell to others what they did not have, for example, Africa imported source salt which it was essential to human diets. The Sahara in exchange for the gold of their region. Consumer from Egypt and Babylon, India and china, Greece and Rome would use trade for many things. Trade also  influenced political life. By giving power to one person or on creating a hierarchy within a group. Bottom line, the trade becomes the vehicle for the spread of religious ideas, technology, disease, and plants and animal to and from the regions. Three road was used for trading: one, Sen road, ships from content to continents using ships and most of the thing being traded were bigger and long distance. It went from Africa to India to Asia. Second, was the silk road, this road was used to transport silk, food, spices and small goods because the use horses and roads. People were able to do short trading or long one. People will be gone for days sometimes, just depended on the distance. The third road is the Sand Roads, this road went from East Africa to Africa and traded God, Spices, Christianity and as transportation they used camels and slaves.