chapters 8,9,10

In our world today, I doubt we seldom stop and think just how easy  it is to purchase our everyday needs and have the essentials we need with in a few feet or miles in our lives to survive. compared to that of ancient civilizations such as commercial beginnings starting in west Africa. were the trans African trade began. trading along roads and along coasts of Africa. trading things such as cloth, glassware, weapons, books, and other manufactured goods. In modern times, were we have UPS trucks and over night deliveries, ancient cultures grew and manufactured goods based on were they lived with in the continent, for example the populations of the desert, were largely pastoral and nomadic, making it easy to grow crops, produce textiles  and metal products. as previously mentioned as just how convenient it is to have your supplies over nighted, trade was traditionally done by boat via the Nile river or by donkeys overland. due to the new desires of societies, trade aloud the incentive and resources for the construction of larger political structures, and because this was possible, people began to question if an even larger form of trade was possible. If trade was possible along rivers with boats, and trade was possible with camels along the vast continent of Africa, was there another land mass out there with similar potential? although before the voyage of Columbus this was not possible, yet! however this opened up a whole new regime of trade. For various sections of the world living in completely different cultures and climates, all brought something equally unique to the table of trading.