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Empire of Ghana - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Miners either dug the gold, or sifted it from fast moving streams
        
        2/3 of world's gold supply came from Africa
        
        African traders traded gold, spices, kola nuts, shea butter, animal hides, leather goods, cloth, and slaves.
        
        Slaves were a part of teh trans-Saharan trade. Traded trough the Indian Ocean routes
        
        Traders payed at tax, and had to regulate trade
        
        How did limiting the supply of gold nuggets prevent their price from falling
        
        Demand and supply. Less supply lends to more demand, increasing prices, and viceversa.
  - - - Sahara rich in salt
        
        Arab and Berber merchants traded salt, cloth, weapons, and mediterranean goods
- - - - Ghana was a matrilineal society, meaning that ancestry was traced through the mother's lineage.
      - Types of groups that were included were: miners, agricultural laborers, metalworkers, and leather crafters.
        
        Skilled craftsman such as blacksmiths and leather crafters enjoyed a privileged place in society and some were supported by the kings court.
- - - - they could cover over 60 miles in a day
        
        they could travel 10 days without water
        
        technologies and developments facilitated interiginal trade between north and west africa
        
        by the 11th entury arabic writting became esential for recordng contracts
        
        gahna grew rich by taxing traders that came through its territory
        
        gahana got its name from the soniki peoples ruller gahna