阿坎人的关系、商业网络和西非的葡萄牙帝国，1482-1637

IF 0.7 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Journal of World History Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1353/jwh.2022.0038

Edmonds Smith, M. Boscariol

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西非的T Akan地区位于现在的加纳和象牙海岸，在十五世纪和十六世纪是世界上黄金产量最高的地区之一。在“科莫河和沃尔特河之间的森林国家的高含金区”——人们更容易接近的地方是阿坎金矿——这种有价值的商品被提取、加工，然后在当地和整个地区进行更广泛的交易。1482年后，这种向北的跨撒哈拉贸易（著名的是通过廷巴克图用塔哈扎的盐交换阿干黄金）得到了与阿干地区南部的葡萄牙永久前哨São Jorge da Mina建立贸易的补充。葡萄牙帝国建立在他们的基础上

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Akan Relations, Commercial Networks, and the Portuguese Empire in West Africa, 1482–1637

T Akan regions of West Africa, lying in what is now Ghana and the Ivory Coast, were, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one of the most consistently high producing sources of gold in the world. In the “highly auriferous area in the forest country between the Komoe and Volta rivers”—knownmore accessibly as the Akan goldfields—this valuable commodity was extracted, processed, and then traded locally and more widely across the region. After 1482, this northerly transSaharan trade (which famously exchanged salt from Taghaza for Akan gold via Timbuktu) was supplemented by the establishment of trade with the permanent Portuguese outpost to the south of the Akan region—São Jorge da Mina. Portuguese empire building on what they

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