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Empire of Ghana - Coggle Diagram
Empire of Ghana
Islamic Influences
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Was the reason why much of the population didn't convert to Islam because of the need to read and write Arabic in orver to study the Qur'an?
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Gold salt trade
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Land of the Gold
Taxes were slab of gold and gold nuggets and only kings could own nuggets, but gold dust freely roamed the market
In the year 800, Ghana had become an empire and the king could demand taxes and gifts from suroundings chiefs
The king limited the gold supply within the market and kept the price very high, he was also known for heading a large bureaucracy but being very self-loathing
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In addition, it could travel more than ten days without water, twice as long as most pack animals.
The ironmaking technologies that had developed by 500 BC in West Africa enabled trade as people manufactured agricultural tools
Arabic writing became important for recording contracts, sharing information, and keeping other records.
if Pottery was made my hand it could locally get put
into a store and be used as a transport goods, able to transport they used canoes to carry the material
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