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The Ghana empire was one of the first great empires in early African history. The Ghana empire became rich by taxing Muslims who traveled to sell gold and salt.
��� Religion is the organization of spirituality into
something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all
religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors,
and used as the framework to control their minds.
John
Henrik Clarke
The Ghana Empire ~ The Attack of The Almoravids (Moors)
Two of Africans greatest kingdoms grew up in west African south of the sahara. Along the Niger river in the modern country of Mali.The first of these great trading empires was Ghana. It was founded around A.D 300 by a people called the seneca,they may have been the first west Africans to make iron. their iron tools and weapons gave them a advantage over other groups in west Africa,whom they conquered to create a strong state,the Kingdom of Ghana.The kings of Ghana built their power on the trade of two key products,god and salt. Gold was the bases of most currency in most of the parts of the world,and west Africa had lots of it. So Arab and Berber traders from north Africa were willing to risk crossing the sahara to trade with west Africa.in turn the west Africans needed salt,which came from mines in the desert. A thriving gold and salt trade developed. Ghana at the center of the caravan routes grew rich by taxing the traders and created a great empire.The traders brought more than just salt and other goods,they brought a new religion, Islam.' The kings of Ghana welcome the muslim traders but they didn't their religion,instead they allowed traders to establish their own muslims trading towns.' But around 1050 an extreme muslim religious movement, aroused among the desert Arabs.Its followers,called Almoravids (Moors) wages war on all non muslims.' in 1076 they swept into Ghana capturing its capital,and forcing the people of Ghana to convert to Islam or be killed,but the empire never recovered.
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something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all
religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors,
and used as the framework to control their minds.
John
Henrik Clarke
The Ghana Empire ~ The Attack of The Almoravids (Moors)
Two of Africans greatest kingdoms grew up in west African south of the sahara. Along the Niger river in the modern country of Mali.The first of these great trading empires was Ghana. It was founded around A.D 300 by a people called the seneca,they may have been the first west Africans to make iron. their iron tools and weapons gave them a advantage over other groups in west Africa,whom they conquered to create a strong state,the Kingdom of Ghana.The kings of Ghana built their power on the trade of two key products,god and salt. Gold was the bases of most currency in most of the parts of the world,and west Africa had lots of it. So Arab and Berber traders from north Africa were willing to risk crossing the sahara to trade with west Africa.in turn the west Africans needed salt,which came from mines in the desert. A thriving gold and salt trade developed. Ghana at the center of the caravan routes grew rich by taxing the traders and created a great empire.The traders brought more than just salt and other goods,they brought a new religion, Islam.' The kings of Ghana welcome the muslim traders but they didn't their religion,instead they allowed traders to establish their own muslims trading towns.' But around 1050 an extreme muslim religious movement, aroused among the desert Arabs.Its followers,called Almoravids (Moors) wages war on all non muslims.' in 1076 they swept into Ghana capturing its capital,and forcing the people of Ghana to convert to Islam or be killed,but the empire never recovered.
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