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In 1416, during a voyage, Mali Empire accidentally had the first contact with India (Mali Empire). The people from Mali Empire landed on Calicut and Quilon, two coast cities of India. Within its first contact, Africans discovered that India possessed something that made food tastes better – Spices (Trade Goods from the East: Spices).
In the early 15th century, the power of Mali Empire waned. Songhay Empire started to grow stronger and stronger (Mali Empire (ca. 1200- )). Songhay Empire was once a part of Mali Empire, they knew about India spices and was fascinated in trading with India. However, Songhay Empire’s greed was beyond just trading.
Songhay Empire started to invade Calicut and Quilon. In 1529, they conquered Calicut and Quilon by the spears and advanced fighting skill. Some Indians wanted to survive, they surrendered to Africans and helped Mali to take the control of Calicut and Quilon. They started to force Indians to largely produce spices and shipped them back to West Africa. The trade route was from the port of Calicut or Quilon, to the …show more content…

Industrial Revolution is a period during which rural societies in Western African kingdoms became industrial and urban. The iron and textile industries, and the steam power, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking (Industrial Revolution). At that time period, Mali Empire and Songhay Empire had already vanished. (Songhai Empire (ca. 1375-1591)) The Morocco took the control of trading routes with India and took over the colonization in India. The rapacious Morocco always wanted more. They started to notice that the production rate of spices could not satisfy the demand of people in Africa. The idea to solve the problem was the slavery in

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