The Ghana Empire: Notes
Jasean Fowlkes
Professor Marrow
History 101
November 26, 2013
1. Ghana means: "Warrior King". Ghana was the title given to the emperors of Wagadou, which is why it became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire. Although present day Ghana took its name from the ancient Ghana Empire, there is no territory common to the two, as Wagadou was located in what is now Southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. (The name Wagadou meant 'Land of Herds').
2. Ghana’s capital city is Kumbi Saleh, which was built right on the edge of the Sahara. This city quickly became the most dynamic and important southern boundary of the Saharan trade routes. Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade, with an efficient form of taxation.
3. The Soninke people were very skilled artisans, craftsman, workers, agrarian laborers, and even superb wordsmith whose oral griots are mimicked by other local tribes such as the Mende. Soninke are thought to be one of the first people to utilize and capitalize on the use of “ironware” in the “Sahelian West Africa “region.
4. The gold salt trade as a time when people traded salt for gold. This was in the seventh through the eleventh centuries. Saharan trade linked the economies that demanded gold with the areas where gold was abundant. Salt was traded for the gold. Ghana played a huge role in the Gold-salt trade because they had owned salt and gold mines.
5. Silent trade, also called silent barter, dumb barter, or depot trade, is a method by which traders who cannot speak each other's language can trade without talking.
6. Wangara was most commonly been used to describe the gold merchants of ancient Mali and Ghana. It is argued that these Wangara merchants were instrumental in the economic development of the Central Sudan in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
7. Muhammad was a religious, political, and military leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by
Professor Marrow
History 101
November 26, 2013
1. Ghana means: "Warrior King". Ghana was the title given to the emperors of Wagadou, which is why it became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire. Although present day Ghana took its name from the ancient Ghana Empire, there is no territory common to the two, as Wagadou was located in what is now Southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. (The name Wagadou meant 'Land of Herds').
2. Ghana’s capital city is Kumbi Saleh, which was built right on the edge of the Sahara. This city quickly became the most dynamic and important southern boundary of the Saharan trade routes. Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade, with an efficient form of taxation.
3. The Soninke people were very skilled artisans, craftsman, workers, agrarian laborers, and even superb wordsmith whose oral griots are mimicked by other local tribes such as the Mende. Soninke are thought to be one of the first people to utilize and capitalize on the use of “ironware” in the “Sahelian West Africa “region.
4. The gold salt trade as a time when people traded salt for gold. This was in the seventh through the eleventh centuries. Saharan trade linked the economies that demanded gold with the areas where gold was abundant. Salt was traded for the gold. Ghana played a huge role in the Gold-salt trade because they had owned salt and gold mines.
5. Silent trade, also called silent barter, dumb barter, or depot trade, is a method by which traders who cannot speak each other's language can trade without talking.
6. Wangara was most commonly been used to describe the gold merchants of ancient Mali and Ghana. It is argued that these Wangara merchants were instrumental in the economic development of the Central Sudan in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
7. Muhammad was a religious, political, and military leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by