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This essay will briefly discuss and explain how ancient Ghana cultures,religions, and also evolved it over time. Ancient Ghana was a Kingdom in Africa that lasted from the 6th to 13th century. The kingdom of ghana was located south of the sahara desert. The people who formed the Kingdom were soninke they were a group of the mande speaking people. Mande and soninke was the language the ghana people spoke. In addition muslim also contributed to the way they write their written language, business methods , and architecture ideas. Emphasises are between the 9th and 11th century ancient ghana were so rich. The empire received its power and wealth by the introduction of gold , the camel , and also the salt trade. They also began to trade off goods and gold for salt and other goods necessary. Kaya Maghan founded cisse dynasty, is observed that it later dominated the Ghana empire from the 8th century ce. As seen as the reason ghana were so rich because of their saharan trade routes. The King began to tax everything that came in and out of ghana. The king required the traders to …show more content…
For a while african kingdoms had relied on slaves to do heavy work and lifting. The king used slaves as soldiers, but the slaves were trusted not to overlook their rulers. There were basically a social group of slaves and were known as palace slaves or the Arbi. They were the skillsman that served mainly as potters , musicians , woodworkers , and craftsperson. Moreover the slaves also worked on village farms to help produce crops and food supply for the towns. In addition there were a new group the akan people, the grew about in the 15th century.The growth made it possible by rich gold mines found on the kingdom. The akan people used gold to buy their slaves from portuguese, also the slave labor made it very easy for the Akan people to shift from agricultural small scale to agricultural large

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