What was the economic base for the larger states and kingdoms that rose in Africa?
like most ancient states it was control over food production of trade of various kinds.
In Egypt the narrow strip of extremely productive land along the banks of the regularly flooding Nile.
In the sphere of dominance around Carthage the production of wheat olives and wine.
In West Africa states at the end of the Trans Saharan trade and also areas of productivity associated with the Niger delta, such as Benin and Mali.
In the south an area particularly favourable to cattle and also very fertile in the Zimbabwe plateau
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