Explain how africa's vast mineral resources, including salt, gold, and iron impacted african trading cities

The African mineral trade allowed cultures and cities to connect and learn from each other, while it also drove them to aggression that ended in the colonization of the continent.

Explanation:

The vast mineral resources in Africa impacted them both positively and negatively. Positively in the first place because trade cities were developed in the safest settlements of different cultures. Also, because this trade helps them learn from each other's cultures as well as from foreigners from outside the continent. Nevertheless, this also brought negative effects because, in the first hand, there were wars to conquer the sources of those resources from Africans and foreigners of the continent, ending in the colonization of Africa. The trading also allowed to create trading routes to connect the continent, even though they were hit by robbers.

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