Egyptian-Sudanese relations rested on trade before conquest

Evidence

As Terence Walz has shown, prior to the viceroy’s conquest there had existed a long tradition of trade between Egyptians and Sudanese of different kingdoms and sultanates. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 133

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt’s conquest replaced merchant knowledge of Sudan with military knowledge — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 133; Egyptian interest in the Sudan intensified after 1820 as trade and politics shifted — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 145; Scholars and merchants formed pre-conquest mobility networks across Egypt and Darfur
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egypt’s conquest replaced merchant knowledge of Sudan with military knowledge — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 133; Egyptian interest in the Sudan intensified after 1820 as trade and politics shifted — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 145; Scholars and merchants formed pre-conquest mobility networks across Egypt and Darfur