salt, or gold 8)
Ghana and Mali were based on trade in gold and salt. Ghana taxed merchants passing through to become wealthy and dominated the gold trade. Mali did the same, as did Songhai.
They were both plentiful in the area. Salt was needed to prevent dehydration in such hot climates. Salt was worth its weight in gold. another thing is that salt was scarce in the savanna regions ... it was also sold in N. africa and europe:)
he traded gold, salt, leather, cloth, sugar, kola nus, and glass beads with other mechants.
gold and salt (study island answer)
Yes, they did trade there gold for salt.
Ghana had gold, but no salt. The Sahara had no gold, but lots of salt. They figured it was a good idea to trade.
Gold and salt
They traded mostly gold and salt
The gold-salt trade was when people north of the Sahara trade salt for gold with the people south of the Sahara. Ghana just happened to be in the middle and charged gold for passing through and became very rich!
The wealth of Mali, a kingdom in West Africa, was the gold and salt trade.
Mail traded Gold and Salt with neighboring countries.
with gold ivory and salt for gold
They traded gold, salt. They had a lot of gold mines and salt mines.
gold
slaves
the trade salt and gold