Unit 4 - LA 2 - Ghana Empire by SIMONE ARIELA MORENO GÓMEZ https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42 Create a padlet wall using the information in this template about the Ghana Empire. Then, answer each question following the format. Share the padlet link with your teacher. Submit the link of your final work to the hyperclass repository. Remember to open access to your teacher to follow up your progress. Write the reference using APA format 7th Edition. en-us 2023-01-17 17:02:37 UTC 2023-01-18 16:58:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Ghana Empire's profile (Origin, geography, language, population, religion) samorenog1 https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177006 The Ghana empire, when it grew rich, they took more political control, improving and strengthening the position it took in order to take smaller states. And even so, it was incorporating gold-producing lands to the cities of the south of the Sahara. This empire was located in the Western Africa, its region lies the south of the Sahara Dessert and most the savanna grassland. The language that the Ghana empire had were several such as Fulfulde (Fula), Soninke, Arabic, Malinke and Mande. The population of the Ghana empire was so large that was more than 20,000 people. And its religion was Islam.]]> 2023-01-17 17:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177006 Ghana Empire's economy (major trading resources, financial strategies to be wealthy, main characters in economical history) samorenog1 https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177269 In Ghana the economy was doing well, one of the resources that was most exchanged was salt, copper, iron, ivory, other hard-to-find materials and gold. Although gold was an almost secret resource and it was limited. Ghana had a way of getting money that was very effective for them, they traded gold, ivory and slaves for salt from Arab people and horses, cloth, swords and books from North Africans and Europeans. As the salt in that place was worth its weight in gold, that made Ghana obtain most of the wealth through the trade of the Arabs, for having so much gold. And this was controlled more by the king.]]> 2023-01-17 17:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177269 Ghana Empire's Golden Age (brief explanation of achievements in Ghana, reasons to become a ruling empire) samorenog1 https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177546 The Ghana empire made some achievements that served them well, such as improving the superior iron technology with that, it helped the control of animals and the weaponry. They also did better with the production of resources, the use of cameos for better trading, that contributes to their strong agricultural base, etc. One of the reasons to rule an empire in Ghana is to have better resources, what I want to say is that having well-cared products allowed them to rule for a long time and have a strategy to rule in a good location. Also to have some people to trade, to have "confident".]]> 2023-01-17 17:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177546 Ghana Empire's decline (date, reasons for its decline, aftermath) samorenog1 https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177777 In the 11th century the empire of Ghana began to decline, due to the rise of the Muslims. What happened was that a militant from the Ṣanhājah and other Amazigh groups from the Sahara joined in a holy war to be their neighbors. Ghana's rule by the Almoravids lasted only a couple of years. But this brought problems with the trade of the empire, that was what they depended on. That is why their agricultural lands burned in a disastrous process of desertification. Although the towns attached to that empire separated and in the year 1203 the Susu took the capital. And in the year 1240 the city was destroyed by the Mande Sundiata emperor and what the Ghana empire was joined the Mali empire.]]> 2023-01-17 17:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447177777 Bibliography samorenog1 https://padlet.com/samorenog1/1hp0ro34f2locd42/wish/2447546089 Busson, J. (n.d.). Ancient Africa for Kids: Empire of Ancient Ghana. Ducksters. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https://www.ducksters.com/history/africa/empire_of_ancient_ghana.php
Ghana's Leaders and Major Accomplishments by Margaret Railey on Prezi Next. (n.d.). Prezi. Retrieved January 18, 2023, from https://prezi.com/tshwwz1oo52g/ghanas-leaders-and-major-accomplishments/
Kingdom of Ghana [ushistory.org]. (n.d.). USHistory.org. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https://www.ushistory.org/civ/7a.asp
O'Neill, D. I. (n.d.). Ghana | historical West African empire | Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https://www.britannica.com/place/Ghana-historical-West-African-empire


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