Marco Polo on the East African coast
1280 CE • Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
“They have elephants in plenty and drive a brisk trade in tusks.”
J.M. Konczacki and Z.A. Konczacki, An Economic History of Tropical Africa, Volume One: The Pre-Colonial Period (London: Routledge, 2013), 213.
Image: First European depiction of Mogadishu (Somalia), from the Livre des merveilles du monde, end of 15th century (National Library, Paris)
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