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
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it would have been difficult for people to communicate with one another‚ however‚ because of the mass appeal of Hellenism and the common language it brought with it‚ communication between people became easy. Through the passage of time‚ merchants‚ caravans‚ and the large transportation of people shaped the geographical
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that flourished‚ north of the present day state‚ between the 4th and 11th centuries A.D. The history of Ghana‚ however‚ dates back ever further to the Sudanic empires of West Africa that controlled the trade in gold and salt to and from the Trans-Saharan trade routes. In later Ghana history Portuguese came in search of gold‚ which they found in abundance. The Portuguese soon began to build several forts along what became known as the Gold Coast‚ where their gold was shopped to Europe. The Portuguese
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Chapter 15 Outline I. World Contacts Before Columbus 1. The Afro-Eurasian trade world linked Europe‚ Asia and Africa in the 15th century. A. The Trade World of the Indian Ocean 1. Indian Ocean was the center of Afro-Eurasian trade world. 2. Location made crossroads for China‚ India‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe. 3. Trading volume increased over the centuries as merchants congregated in a series of cosmopolitan port cities‚ most had some form of autonomous self-government 4. Most developed
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Acorn Packet – Review Questions: Packet 1 – Foundations and Classical Eras Technological and Environmental transformations and the Organization and reorganization of human societies 8000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E. Answer each part of each question below as thoroughly as possible using your textbook‚ chapter outlines‚ review books‚ and class work. 1. How did the use of fire/tools change civilization? Describe the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies. -The rise of writing in cuneiform tablets
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Mongol Empire? d) They introduced new political models that reshaped the states of older civilizations. a) They preserved the lifestyle of gathering and hunting societies. c) They created a series of nomadic empires and controlled major trade routes. b) They spread their polytheistic religions to neighboring civilizations. 2. Why did pastoral societies emerge only in the Afro-Eurasian world and not in the Americas? a) The environments in the Americas were not suitable for pastoral
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people to sell into slavery. African traders who specialized in procuring people for the slave trade did business at inland markets or fairs and brought the slaves to the coast for sale. 2. In the Portuguese-held territory of Angola‚ Afro-Portuguese caravan merchants brought trade goods to the interior and exchanged them for slaves‚ whom they transported to the coast for sale to Portuguese middlemen‚ who then sold the slaves to slave dealers for shipment to Brazil. Many of these slaves were prisoners
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Ancient Ghana derived power and wealth from gold and the introduction of the camel during the Trans-Saharan trade increased the quantity of goods that were transported. Majority of the knowledge of Ghana comes from the Arab writers. Al-Hamdani‚ for example‚ describes Ghana as having the richest gold mines on earth. These mines were situated at Bambuk‚ on the upper Senegal River. The Soninke people also sold slaves‚ salt and copper in exchange for textiles‚ beads and finished goods. They built their
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whether it was possible to return once it was crossed. Hence‚ the overland Silk Road and the Spice Trade Routes are the extensive interconnected network of trade routes to the world. However‚ the economically important Silk Road and Spice Trade Routes were blocked by the Ottoman Empire by 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire‚ spurring exploration motivated initially by the finding of a sea route around Africa and triggering the Age of Discovery. Portugal Portugal is the pioneer to start sailing
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This epidemic originated in China‚ where it killed about 35 million people. It spread rapidly through Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. New forms of commerce and trade‚ including Mongol control of the central Asian Silk Routes‚ facilitated its transmission. First occurring in the 1330s‚ the epidemic spread westward with traders and merchants‚ and arrived in Italian port cities as early as 1347. Crowded conditions‚ lack of sanitation‚ and lack of medical knowledge contributed
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