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Topics:
1. Human evolution
2. Early trading systems
- Indian Ocean and East Africa: Arab trade, Swahili coastal communities, and links with Great Zimbabwe - ninth to sixteenth centuries
- West Africa and trans-Saharan trade: salt, gold, slaves and ancient trade routes, centres of learning, historical reporting - ninth to sixteenth centuries
- European trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
- Dutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Africa and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
