Classical Africa
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Timbuktu was a major commercial center in West Africa located at the end of a trade network connecting to North Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. Gold and salt were important commodities traded across the Sahara desert, with gold mined in places like Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal. Ghana was a powerful empire based around this trade, with a centralized government led by a divine king who controlled the country's gold resources and taxed goods. Though powerful, Ghana declined after being conquered by the Mali Empire, whose leader Sundiata Keita established a new prosperous kingdom centered around Mali.
Classical Africa
- 2. AFRICA
- 6. TIMBUKTU
- 7. TIMBUKTU a West African City, located at the end of trade network near Cairo and across Mediterranean Sea Commercial Center
- 10. SAHARA TRADE Gold is abundance in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal brought to North Africa and Europe Salt important to peoples diet
- 11. GHANA
- 13. EMPIRE BASED ON TRADE AND AGRICULTURE
- 14. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT King Appointed officers Final judge of all court cases partly divine owns all the gold nuggets Empire taxed all goods
- 15. ALMORAVIDS
- 16. KOUMBI SALEH
- 17. GHANA WON BACK THE KOUMBI SALEH Government punished the disobey provinces Merchants moved to other trading city
- 18. END OF GHANA Mali soldiers conquered the empire and established a new prosperous kingdom
- 19. CURRENT GHANA Mauritania, Mali and Senegal
- 20. MALI
- 22. SUNDIATA KEITA
- 23. MANSA MUSA
- 25. SONGHAI
- 27. SUNNI ALI (ALI THE GREAT)
- 28. TUAREGS
- 29. SUNNI ALI AND HIS MEN
- 30. DJENNE
- 32. ASKIA MOHAMMAD
- 33. Improved system of government Taxation System of communication Strengthen Islam Appointed Islamic Judge to enforce law based on Quran Songhai Scholars learned to read and write Arabic