Trans-Saharan Trade
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Trans-Saharan Trade

trans_saharan_trade

The northern termini of the trans-Saharan caravan routes (Sijilmasa, Ouargla, Tlemcen, Ghadāmis, and Tripoli) sit on our soil, gathering the Bambuk and Buré gold dust, Slaves, and ivory of the Sudan into our markets. Our jallāba merchants finance the desert crossing, our mints strike golden dinārs from the inbound gold under royal monopoly, and our re-export trade redistributes Sudanese goods to Mediterranean and Atlantic buyers. This commanding position over the northern half of the Saharan economy gives every Maghrebi state both a trade route revenue and a minting prestige that no purely Mediterranean kingdom can match.

RequiresDistant MarketsAdvancerequires

Potential
At least one of
Exact conditions

Advance tree

  1. Banking
  2. Standardized Coins
  3. Distant Markets
  4. Trans-Saharan Trade

Requires 3

Culture Groups
Advances

Belongs to 1

Required by 1

Scripting 1

icon = markets_for_salt
potential = {
OR = {
culture = {
has_culture_group = culture_group:amazigh_group
}
culture = {
has_culture_group = culture_group:maghrebi_group
}
}
}

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