True or False: The Indian Ocean Trade Networks primarily facilitated the export of raw materials from Africa to Asia, while finished goods flowed in the opposite direction.

True. The Indian Ocean trade was a two‑way system: African kingdoms supplied gold, ivory, and other raw materials to traders in Asia, who in turn brought back finished goods such as silk, porcelain, and spices. Merchants from the Middle East, China, and India carried these finished items to African ports, where they were traded for African raw products. This pattern of raw‑material export to Asia and finished‑goods import from Asia was the main economic feature of the networks. Thus the statement accurately describes the primary flow of goods.