African’s were among the richest of people back in the 1000’s. Effects of trade brought cities to faster than they rise. Great civilizations from Ghana to Zimbabwe both flourished but‚ had their tragic end. But‚ it provided them with a lot of things such as gold‚ salt slaves etc. People introduced camels to the desert in 200 a.d. Merchants primarily used them for trade to the Empires in the middle of the desert. They traded things such as gold‚ ivory‚ ostrich feathers‚ animal hides‚ and slaves
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out in the Pentateuch which was the religious text of the Jewish religion. Another kingdom that was established in Africa was The Kingdom of Mali‚ According to Brown’s 2008 studies for The University of North Carolina Pembroke‚ Mali took over the Kingdom of Ghana which was to be the protector of trade routes‚ it also formed foundations that were remaining from its predecessors. Around the 11th century‚ the rulers decided to convert to Islam. One of the important rulers of The Kingdom of Mali was
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Maria Kearney Ms. Keilman p2 5/18/2012 Sub-Saharan Africa Current Event Kony 2012 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/joseph_kony/index.html Joseph Kony is a man from Uganda‚ Africa. He is a man who kidnaps children from Uganda and forces them to kill their parents. He used girls as sex slaves and boys to be in his army. He kidnapped up to 30‚000 children a made an army called the LMA. He has killed thousands of children‚ and is still going. He is the number one criminal
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Discuss the concept of adolescence as a social construct and its validity for different cultures. Adolescence describes the transitional stage in a teenager’s life‚ from childhood to adulthood‚ where an individual evolves physically‚ psychologically‚ emotionally‚ cognitively and socially. It is a defined social category that is expressed through immaturity and unpredictability and allows an individual to learn and discover their sense of self and identity. The idea of adolescence came into perspective
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Emmy Egulu To what extent can data influence our perception of how developed a country is? According to the Oxford dictionary‚ data is “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis‚”[1] Society tends to think that the western world or MEDC’s are more developed than the eastern world or LEDC’s generally but this information can be resulted to being misleading or inconsistent. I think data has an influence on how we perceive a country by whether or not it is developed from statistics
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How is Ghana different from the UK? UK Ghana Flags Red‚ white‚ blue Red‚ green‚ yellow with a green star Climate The climate of Ghana is tropical‚ but temperatures vary with season. We never know what the weather will be like from one day to the other. It can be sunny one day and rainy the next. As we have such a variable climate changing from day to day‚ it is difficult to predict the weather. In general we have warm summers and cool winters
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Trade has been a part of this world for millenniums and continues to be an important pillar in the modern day world. Africa used to excell in this area. The relationship among the three empires‚ Ghana‚ Mali and Songhai was one of the most important in African history. Aksum was also a huge trading center in the northeastern part of ancient Africa. Many of the successful empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities of Africa had a foundation based on trade. Trade is the exchange of goods‚ an area where the trio
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Mali became a great empire under the rule of Mansa Musa and was a able to hit its peak with his help. He also had become Mali’s most famous leaders and ruled for 25 years. In this expository paragraph‚ I will be illustrating how and why Timbuktu became such an important city for the empire Mali. In the these three paragraphs‚ I will be illustrating Timbuktu being conquered‚ Mali the empire‚ and why Timbuktu became an important city for Mali. To start it off‚ I will be analyzing Timbuktu’s important
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Mali was not an Islamic kingdom originally. The kingdom of Kangaba which would grow into the mighty empire of Mali‚ is thought to have been founded about 1000 AD. It was within the empire of (Ancient) Ghana‚ to whom they had to pay tribute. When Ghana came apart due to outside attacks and inside revolts‚ eventually it was taken over by the Fulani of Takrur‚ led by Sumanguru. 1230-1240 AD‚ the people of Kangaba‚ angered by the harsh rule of Sumanguru‚ made a bid for independence‚ under the leadership
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PostClassical Western Europe and Post Classical SubSaharan Africa are two civilizations that had many similar and different customs and ways of life‚ some of which are still practiced today. These civilizations developed with little contact between each other and were extremely contrasting‚ and yet many similarities can be found between them. Even though they had differences‚ such as religions‚ origins‚ and organization‚ they are similar in many political‚ economical‚ and social aspects‚ such as
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