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Empire of Ghana - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In his royal palace, the king stored golf nuggets and slabs of salt
        
        He headed a large bureaucracy and could call up a huge army. In 1067, a Muslim geographer and scholar named al-Bakri wrote a description of Ghana’s royal court.
  - - - the king limited the supply of gold and kept its price from falling. Ghana’s African ruler acted as a religious leader, chief judge, and military commander
- - - - nomads began using camels
        
        camel could plod steadily over much longer distances
        
        60 miles in a day
        
        more than 10 days without water
      - iron making
        
        weaponry
        
        agricultural tools
        
        iron helped west african empires keep order on the trade routes
        
        helped increase agricultural production
        
        plentiful food
- - - - The people who did convert stuck to their old beliefs
- - - - traded gold and salt under the watch of the king
        
        how much did the traders carry on them?