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Ghana is located within the borders of Mauritania, Mali, and Senegal, In Africa Ghana literally sat on a gold mine.

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The land's many resources allowed Ghana's to have many years of great trading. Also they were on a gold mine.
Fun Fact: Ghana's were so rich there dogs had gold collars, and there horses had silk ropes.

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Ancient empire of Ghana was located south of the Sahara desert and northwest of the Niger river in modern day Mauritania and Mali.

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Bellringer
1.  Recall: The Empire of Ghana was located in Western Africa in what is today the countries of Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali. The region lies just south of the Sahara Desert and is mostly savanna grasslands. Major rivers in the region such as the Gambia River, Senegal River, and the Niger River served as the means of transportation and trade. The capital city of Ancient Ghana was Koumbi Saleh. This is where the King of Ghana lived in his royal palace. Archeologists estimate that up to 20,000 people lived in and around the capital city.
2. Explain: 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. The  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 capital city, Kumbi Saleh, right on the  edge of the Sahara and the city quickly became the most dynamic and important  southern terminus of the Saharan trade routes.
3.Summarize: Islam made a momentous entry into the Northern Territories of Ghana at the beginning of the fifteenth century, mainly due to commercial (trading) activities of sahelian tribes of West Africa. Prior to that, Da'wah workers had made contact and written extensively about the people including inhabitants of Bonoman states located in the hinterlands of contemporary Ghana.  Traders from North Africa (Algeria, Libya, etc) who were Muslim spread Islam to Ghana as they were looking for gold, slaves, spice, and other items to their south.

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-Bell Ringer.
Using the ICE strategy on Padlet student will:

*Recall= The ancient empire of Ghana was located in Western Africa.

*Explain= The Ghana's location lead to wealth and power, because the land they where on, was rich of gold, great canals and food and also other goods.

*Summarize= Islam religion reach the Ghana throw trade, they traded with the Muslim and that spread their religion with the Ghana's.

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Bell Ringer

Recall: Where was the ancient empire of Ghana?

*it was located in Western Africa

Explain: How did Ghana location lead to wealth and power?

* 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.

Summarize: How did the religion Islam reach Ghana?

*  it was indeed the traders that spread Islam around Ghana, but the Arabs introduced their writing and numbers. Soon after this happened most people changed to Islam yet the Soninke kings kept their traditions, like the religion of Animism. Remember that the number and writing system played a big roll on the conversion to Islam in Ghana.

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BELLRINGER:
RECALL: The ancient empire of Ghana was located in Western Africa in what today is called Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali. The region lies just south of the Sahara desert and is mostly savanna green lands.
EXPLAIN: The ancient Ghana location lead to wealth and power by having gold and the introduction of the camel during the Trans-Saharan trade increased the of goods.
SUMMARIZE: The religion Islam reached Ghana by Traders from North Africa who were Muslim spread Islam to Ghana as they were looking for gold,slaves,spices,and other items to their south.

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1)Where was the ancient empire of Ghana? Western Africa
2)How did Ghana location lead to wealth and power?  Ghana derived power and wealth from gold and camel
3)How did the religion Islam reach Ghana?    the traders who were Muslim spread Islam to Ghana when they were looking for gold, slaves and other stuff.

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Using the ICE strategy on Padlet, student will:
Recall: where was the ancient empire of Ghana?
-The ancient empire was located in western Africa.
Ex plain: how did Ghana's location lead to wealth and power?
- Ghana got power from gold and camel.
Summarize: how did the religion Islam reach Ghana?
- People who were Muslim spread the religion.

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Recall: Where was the ancient empire of Ghana?
- the ancient empire was located in western Africa.

Explain: How did Ghana's location lead to wealth and power?
- Ghana got power from gold and camel.

Summarize: How did the religion Islam reach Ghana?
-People who were Muslim spread the religion

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where was the ancient empire of ghana?
The empire of ghana was located in western Africa.
where was the ancient emprie of ghana?
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.
How did the religion Islam reach ghara?
Trans-Saharan trade brough Islam to Ghana.

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where was the ancient empire of ghana located?

the empire of ghana is located to the south of the sahara desert.

how did ghanas location lead to wealth and power?
they gained power by the trans-

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Recall: Where was the ancient Empire of Ghana?
The ancient Empire of Ghana was located in Western Africa.

Explain: How did Ghana's location lead to wealth and power?
Ghana's location led to power and wealth because most of Ghana was on fertile grassland, which was known for growing food to trade, and also contained many salt and gold mines in it's area. Ghana was also on an enormous amount of iron.

Summarize: How did the religion of Islam reach Ghana?
The Islamic religion was introduced to Ghana in the 15th century, by the Soninke and Dyula, two Mande groups. The Islma faith is in Northern Ghana, which is around 16% of the entire population.

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Where was the ancient empire of Ghana located?
The Empire of Ancient Ghana was located in southern Mauritania and northern Senegal.

How did Ghana's location lead to wealth and power?
Much of it sat on fertile grassland, good for growing food for trading. It controlled many salt and gold mines in its vicinity. And if you wanted salt or gold you would have to pass through Ghana.

The spared of Islam into west Africa ,begging with

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Recall: Where was the ancient empire of Ghana?
It is in Africa located south of the Sahara desert and northwest of the Niger river.
Explain: how did Ghana's location lead to a wealth and power?
They got their power and wealth from the Trans-Saharan trade that gave gold and camel.
Summarize: How did the religion Islam reach Ghana?
Muslim traders were in Ghana and had traded away things such as gold. slaves, spices, and other things to the South.

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Where was the ancient empire of Ghana?
The ancient empire of Ghana was located in western Africa. The location was on fertile Grassland making it easy to grow crops for trading. There were salt and gold mines which was also a source to their wealth and power. Since they had many sources of food and mines everyone would come to trade with them even if they had high taxes because most of it was a necessity. The traders from the north came looking for food, gold, slaves, spices, and other things that Ghana had a plethora of.

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Bellringer:
Recall: The empire of Ghana was taken place in Western Africa which now is called Mauritania, Mali and Senegal.
Explain: the ancient Ghana location lead to wealth and power by having gold and the beginning of the camel while it was in the middle of the Trans-Saharan trade which increased the amount of goods.
Summarizing: the trade from the Tran-Saharan brought the religion of islam to Ghana.

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bell ringer:
1) Where was the ancient empire of Ghana? it was located in Western Africa in what is today the countries of Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali.
2) How did Ghana location lead to wealth and power?  Ghana lead to power from the seek of gold and camel
3) How did the religion Islam reach Ghana?  Traders began spreading Islam around Ghana as they were looking for gold, spice, slaves, etc.

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Ghana's location lead to wealth and power by having much of it sat on fertile grassland, good for growing food for trading. It controlled many salt and gold mines in its neighborhood, if you wanted gold or salt, you would have to pass though Ghana, which had a heavy tax on these items.

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recall:where was the ancient empire of Ghana?
- the ancient empire was located in western Africa.

explain: how did Ghana's location lead to wealth and power?
- Ghana got power from gold and camels, the camels increased the quantity of goods that were transported.

summarize: how did the religion Islam reach Ghana?
- the religion of Islam reached Ghana traders from the north Africa (Algeria, Libya,etc...), who were Muslim spread Islam to Ghana as they were looking for gold, slaves, spice, and other items to their south.

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There were many Islamic traders in Africa. They were accepted into Ghana. The traders introduced the Ghana's to Islam.
Also trade was a big part of the Ghana's accepting Islam. It brought new cultures and materials.

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bell ringer:
using the ice stratgey on padlet student will :
Recall:where was the ancient empire of Ghana ? the acient empire of Ghana was located in the western africa , that today is called mali,senegal, mauritania.
explain:how did ghana's location lead to wealth and power ? it got its wealth by capitalizing on the trans saharan tranding of gold and salt . it took advantage of the abundance of minerals in the region to build up surpluses, and this allowed them to expand their territories through trade and conquest
summrazing: how did the religion islam reach ghana ?

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The religion of Isam reached Ghana through Traders from North Africa (Algeria, Libya, etc) who were Muslim spread Islam to Ghana as they were looking for gold, slaves, spice, and other items.

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