Respuesta :

The city-states of the Swahili Coast traded with certain African tribes as far away as Zimbabwe, as well as the major trading powers of the time—Persia, India, Arabia, and China—across the Indian Ocean.

The location was at the core of international intercontinental networks that connected the Swahili coast to places like India, Cambodia, the Arabian peninsula, and China for a long time due to the trading of various luxury products and people who had been held as slaves. Europe entered this matrix as pirates and authoritarians seeking a trade monopoly in the 15th century via the Portuguese invasion and later the Dutch and British since Europe lacked anything of significant worth to trade.

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