Chapter Eight Continuation: Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara

Something that this section of the chapter was about and got my attention was that although the sparse populations of the desert were largely pastoral and nomadic, farther south lived agricultural people's. Those people grew a variety of crops, produced their own textiles, and metal products, and mined a considerable amount of gold. Another thing that got my attention was that the agriculture regions of sub-Saharan Africa are normally divided into two ecological zones. This got my attention because I got to learned what were the two ecological zones and what they did.