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Empires of Ghana - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Why would the disruption of trade destroy Ghana's Power?
- - - - that ancestory was traced through the mother's lineage
- - - - Miners dug gold from shafts as deep as 100 feet or sifted it from fast-moving streams.
        
        two-thirds of the world’s supply of gold came from West Africa. West Africa’s savanna and forests lacked salt, a material essential to human life.
        
        Sahara contained deposits of salt.
        
        How did limiting the supply of Gold nuggets prevent their price from falling? :
        
        If the nuggets were more in demand their value is higher bc many people want them. So people have to pay a lot in order to just a Gold nugget.
- - - - the king limited the supply of gold and kept its price from falling
        
        why would the king keep his gold if the price goes down?
- - - - they could travel more then ten days without water