A connected story

Gold, Trade, and Regional Power

Gold was more than a metal taken from the ground. It paid traders, strengthened rulers, supported specialist work and linked forest communities with savannah markets far to the north. Around it grew routes, weights, market towns and systems of trust that connected ordinary labour to regional power.

How did production and trade turn gold into political power?

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