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Commadaties and Trade Routes Power, Wealth, and Control: How Trade Routes Built Empires Mansa Musa – The Gold King of West Africa In the 14th century, Mansa Musa didn’t just inherit an empire—he strategically controlled the most valuable commodities on earth at the time: gold and salt. The Mali Empire sat on top of rich gold mines in West Africa, but Musa’s real genius wasn’t just owning the resource—it was controlling how it moved. He dominated the Trans-Saharan trade routes

The Big Mac Index, created by The Economist in 1986, is a novel way of measuring purchasing power parity (PPP) between nations, using the...