Caravans Of Gold Essay
An Essay on “Caravans of Gold” and “Africa: A History Denied”
A powerful and peaceful land of trade and scholarship was established in Africa long before European ships even landed there. Great African Empires flourished from the wealth of Africa’s natural resources that marked its rich and lavish history. Though Europeans and Arabs, people who most benefited from the wealth of Africa, denied Africa its legacy, the magnificence of people of color is embedded in the history of powerful empires such as Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Cairo, and Zimbabwe.
The gold deposits of West Africa brought great wealth to the surrounding people from which great empires emerged. The first of the three most powerful successive empires of West Africa is Ghana. By the 11th century, the armies of Ghana made master trade routes extending from modern-day Morocco in the north to the coastal forests of West Africa in the South. Though the gold deposits brought much wealth to Ghana, the Niger River served as a source of fish, which was also a valuable …show more content…
The people of Mali conquered them, in turn, in about 1240. Early Europeans looked to cities such as Cairo for Renaissance art work and even changed their currency to gold coins, mimicking the currency of the Africans. Cairo was noted as “the metropolis of the universe. The Dutch, English, and French then followed in taking the wealth of the Africans. Remains of these cities and buildings magnify the intelligence of the Africans long before slaves were appropriated. These cathedrals are compared to the most expansive and majestic cathedrals of Europe. Under the Sunni dynasty, Songhai expansion incorporated the eastern part of Mali into its empire in 1471. When the well-designed homes of the Swahili domestic architecture were built, there were houses hardly anywhere else in the
A powerful and peaceful land of trade and scholarship was established in Africa long before European ships even landed there. Great African Empires flourished from the wealth of Africa’s natural resources that marked its rich and lavish history. Though Europeans and Arabs, people who most benefited from the wealth of Africa, denied Africa its legacy, the magnificence of people of color is embedded in the history of powerful empires such as Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Cairo, and Zimbabwe.
The gold deposits of West Africa brought great wealth to the surrounding people from which great empires emerged. The first of the three most powerful successive empires of West Africa is Ghana. By the 11th century, the armies of Ghana made master trade routes extending from modern-day Morocco in the north to the coastal forests of West Africa in the South. Though the gold deposits brought much wealth to Ghana, the Niger River served as a source of fish, which was also a valuable …show more content…
The people of Mali conquered them, in turn, in about 1240. Early Europeans looked to cities such as Cairo for Renaissance art work and even changed their currency to gold coins, mimicking the currency of the Africans. Cairo was noted as “the metropolis of the universe. The Dutch, English, and French then followed in taking the wealth of the Africans. Remains of these cities and buildings magnify the intelligence of the Africans long before slaves were appropriated. These cathedrals are compared to the most expansive and majestic cathedrals of Europe. Under the Sunni dynasty, Songhai expansion incorporated the eastern part of Mali into its empire in 1471. When the well-designed homes of the Swahili domestic architecture were built, there were houses hardly anywhere else in the