African Cavalry

I have moved this very interesting topic to its rightful place. The steppe empires of Africa are certainly an overlooked subject.

While we're on the topic, I have a suspicion that the Sahel may have played a somewhat similar role as a trade and travel conduit for Africa as the Eurasian steppes had in Asia and Europe. I think that it is very possible that trade routes ran along its length, from the Nile to the civilizations on the banks of the upper Niger, and from the Sahara to the forest kingdoms of Benin, Dahomey, Igbo and others. It is well known that the Hausa were great traders, who travelled as far the Senegal in the West, and Darfur in the East; moreover, the very existence and location of the trading Husa city states in northern Nigeria suggests the existence of trade routes along the Sahel.

Seen in this respect, kingdoms such as Kanem-Bornu, Mossi, Ouaddai, Fulani kingdoms such as Sokoto, and even an empire such as Songhay could be seen as the equivalent of the Turkish and Mongol kingdoms in Central Asia, who used their military might to control trade routes and extort tribute from their settled neighbors.

may you think , was it possible Vikings took horse to America?