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What did the Berbers bring as a trade item that the West Africans thought was as valuable as gold?

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salt was so valuable that it was traded ounce for ounce for gold during the bantu migration! i wrote a paper about this last year haha but yes your answer would be salt.








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I would say salt because in Africa salt was as good as gold
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