The Arawaks exchanged this commodity for tokens that prevented their hands from being cut off.
The Arawaks exchanged this commodity for tokens that prevented their hands from being cut off. While Don Pedro II was in Europe, an 1888 law named after this substance abolished slavery in Brazil. Slaves gathered this substance in the Kerma region of Nubia during the Egyptian New Kingdom. (*) Francisco Coronado searched for Cibola and the Seven Cities of this substance. Mansa Musa depleted the price of this commodity in Egypt by giving it out during his hajj, of which the Mali empire had gained so much by trading salt for it. For ten points, identify this precious metal, the the discovery of which prompted an 1849 "rush" in California.
The Arawaks exchanged this commodity for tokens that prevented their hands from being cut off.
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