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What led to West African settlements becoming important centers of trade?

What led to West African settlements becoming important centers of trade?
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What led to West African settlements becoming important centers of trade?

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Access to natural resources like gold, ivory, salt mines
Close to major trade routes
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They had a lot of valuable resources and there land was very untouched because the Africans never cared about gold or oil they cared about clean water and food so when other countries noticed their value they started doing trade.
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