Trade

Syllabus tag: KCSE | History and Government | Form 2 | Topic 10 Trade

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

• Define trade and describe barter and the development of currency.
• Distinguish local, regional and international trade.
• Describe the Trans-Saharan trade, its organisation and participants.
• Explain the causes, consequences and decline of the Trans-Saharan trade.

Summary

Trade is the exchange of goods and services. It began as barter, whose difficulties led to currency. Trade is local, regional or international. The Trans-Saharan trade carried gold, slaves and ivory north across the Sahara and salt, cloth, horses and beads south, and it spread Islam, Arabic and urban growth in West Africa.