Christe A. McMenomy, Ph.D. and Karl Oles for Scholars Online
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64: Mon, May 4, 2026
Please post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:
Practical economic power in the societies we’ve studied so far this year has usually depended on the control or ownership of the land, or on control of trade—either production or trade routes. In Rome and China, for example, land ownership remained a dominant issue; in Islamic societies, trade was probably more important, and merchants were more respected. How do these issues manifest themselves in medieval Africa, and how does an economy primarily based on trade create a different kind of power pattern from one based on agriculture and land ownership?
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