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Because the Akan lived in the forests of West Africa, they had few natural resources for salt and always needed to trade for it. ... Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers like Djenne and Timbuktu on the Niger River.
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On October 10th, 1487 King John II of Portugal assigned Bartholomew Dias to sail to the southern tip of Africa in hopes of finding a trade route that would lead them to India.
