There was much more to this trade than this video suggests. It was more complicated than this and told hundreds of years to knit it all together. Kingdoms in India were the central hub of the network and got fabulously wealthy from it. Black East Africans were also critical because those raw materials like gold and ivory were obtained by tribes on the interior and traded to city states on the coast. Arabs and Persians were important because they were connected to European kingdoms through trade and the spread of Islam which gave a cohesive belief and legal system across the system. People involved (e.g. sailors, traders, bankers, wholesalers, speculators, ect.) spent the whole year conducting transactions and maneuvering between the seasons when the loads of goods came to and from the east coast of Africa and India. This was a huge transfer of people, ideas, and goods that existed for centuries before European colonization. Unfortunately, it was also a primary motivation of European colonizers in the 15th and 16th centuries. This video makes it sound similar to the west African slave trade but it was quite different as the people and type of political relationships between participants in the west African slave trade. Please read more about the archaeology of the Swahili states and West Indian coastal trading cities if you want to actually understand what was going on.
Somalis actually crossed the ocean. This bias of attributing all agency to whatever flavour of non-African peoples is conveniently near, is severely misleading
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There was much more to this trade than this video suggests. It was more complicated than this and told hundreds of years to knit it all together. Kingdoms in India were the central hub of the network and got fabulously wealthy from it. Black East Africans were also critical because those raw materials like gold and ivory were obtained by tribes on the interior and traded to city states on the coast. Arabs and Persians were important because they were connected to European kingdoms through trade and the spread of Islam which gave a cohesive belief and legal system across the system. People involved (e.g. sailors, traders, bankers, wholesalers, speculators, ect.) spent the whole year conducting transactions and maneuvering between the seasons when the loads of goods came to and from the east coast of Africa and India. This was a huge transfer of people, ideas, and goods that existed for centuries before European colonization. Unfortunately, it was also a primary motivation of European colonizers in the 15th and 16th centuries.
This video makes it sound similar to the west African slave trade but it was quite different as the people and type of political relationships between participants in the west African slave trade. Please read more about the archaeology of the Swahili states and West Indian coastal trading cities if you want to actually understand what was going on.
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Somalis actually crossed the ocean. This bias of attributing all agency to whatever flavour of non-African peoples is conveniently near, is severely misleading
India came to trade and never attacked Africans unlike Europeans...