APHG Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Development ? 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Concept Caching: New Orleans, Louisiana Field Note: Geography, Trade, and Development ?Walking down one of the major streets of Timbuktu, Mali , I could hardly believe I was in the renowned intellectual, spiritual, and economic center of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. At that time, the place had a great reputation for wealth, which spurred the first European explorations along the African coast. What survives is a relatively impoverished town of some 35,000 people providing central place functions for the surrounding area and seeking to attract some tourist business based on its legendary name.? ? 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Figure 10.1