Trading Salt for Gold in West Africa Standard 7.4 Niger River Ghana.
Chapter 12: Ghana: A West Africa Trading Empire
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Chapter 12:Ghana: A West Africa Trading Empire
Mr. Meza7th Grade World History
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1. Where do the earliest writings about Ghana come from?
• Arab scholars
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2. How did scholars describe Ghana?
• As a “land of Gold”
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3. How did Ghana’s king acquire his wealth?
• Through the control of the gold trade
• Collected taxes on the goods that passed through the kingdom
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4. How did the king address the people’s concerns?
• By holding a daily court with his people
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5. Matrilineal
• A family line traced through the mother
• In Ghana, the royal inheritance was matrilineal
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6. What was Ghana’s military composed of?
• Several thousand career soldiers
• They were responsible to maintain peace and order
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7. What was the source of Ghana’s wealth?
• Salt, copper, cowrie shells (used as money)
• Taxes
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8. What is the trans-Saharan trade?
• Trade between Islam and West Africa
• Through the Sahara desert
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9. When were camels brought to the Sahara?
• 300 CE
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10. What are porters?
• A person who is hired to carry loads
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11. What is Wangara?
• Area located near the forest south of Ghana
• Gold was plentiful• Only the people of
Wangara knew its location
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12. What is Taghaza?
• City where the salt mines are located
• In the Sahara desert
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13. In what two ways is salt produced?
• Evaporation • Mining from salt
deposits
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14. What kind of taxes did Ghana collect?
• Traders paid taxes to Ghana on goods they sold and bought
• Traders paid taxes when they entered and exit Ghana
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15. What was the busiest market in Ghana?
• Kumbi, the capital of Ghana
• Was one of the largest slave markets
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16. When and how did the decline of Ghana take place?
• Reached its height in 1000 C.E.
• Declined because of war and a loss in natural resources
• In ended in 1203
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17. When did Mali become a West African kingdom?
• In 1240 the Mande conquered Kumbi
• The leader accepted Islam (Muslim religion)