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SCOUT· 37%2h 15m·2025-11-23·HistoryCities of Iron & Gold: West Africa Before 1700
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We follow the rise of civilization and of powerful empires in West Africa before the slave tade, based upon iron-working and the traffic in gold and salt across the Sahara, followed by the spread of wealth and power southward, towards the gold fields and the tropical forests, and finally the reverberating impacts of…
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