Kingdom Economy

Archaeological research was slow to enter the picture. While French archaeologists believed they had located the capital, Koumbi-Saleh in the s, when they located extensive stone ruins in the general area given in most sources for the capital, and others argued that elaborate burials in the Niger Bend area may have been linked to the empire, it was not until , when Patrick Munson excavated at Dhar Tichitt in modern-day Mauretania that the probability of an entirely local origin was raised.

In more recent work in Dar Tichitt, and then in Dhar Nema and Dhar Walata , it has become more and more clear that as the desert advanced, the Dhar Tichitt culture which had abandoned its earliest site around BC, possibly because of pressure from desert nomads, but also because of increasing aridity and moved southward into the still well watered areas of northern Mali.

The empire's capital is believed to have been at Koumbi Saleh on the rim of the Sahara desert. The name of the other section of the city is not recorded. It was surrounded by wells with fresh water, where vegetables were grown. It was inhabited almost entirely by Muslims along with twelve mosques , one of which was designated for Friday prayers, and had a full group of scholars, scribes and Islamic jurists. Because the majority of these Muslims were merchants, this part of the city was probably its primary business district. The separate and autonomous ran towns outside of the main government is a well known practice used by the Dyula and Jakhanke Muslims throughout history.

A seventeenth-century chronicle written in Timbuktu , the Tarikh al-fattash , gives the name of the capital as "Koumbi".

The site was excavated in —50 by Thomassey and Mauny [26] and by another French team in — Another problem for archaeology is that al-Idrisi, a twelfth-century writer, described Ghana's royal city as lying on a riverbank, a river he called the "Nile" following the geographic custom of his day of confusing the Niger and Senegal, which do not meet, as forming a single river often called the "Nile of the Blacks".

Most of our information about the economy of Ghana comes from al-Bakri.

Al-Bakri noted that merchants had to pay a one gold dinar tax on imports of salt, and two on exports of salt. Other products paid fixed dues, al-Bakri mentioned both copper and "other goods. Many of the hand-crafted leather goods found in old Morocco also had their origins in the empire. The king claimed as his own all nuggets of gold, and allowed other people to have only gold dust. These contributing factors all helped the empire remain powerful for some time, providing a rich and stable economy that was to last over several centuries.

The empire was also known to be a major education hub. The Kingdom of Ghana was a very wealthy kingdom for numerous reasons, one of the reasons being the Trans-Saharan Trade.

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The Kingdom of Ghana was very populated and had many people from outside the kingdom travel through in order to trade with those from the Kingdom of Ghana or to trade with other outsiders, making Ghana a focal point trading center. Some of the most important parts of products that were trade within Ghana were salt and gold. With gold and salt being transported and traded through Ghana, the Kingdom of Ghana was able to become very wealthy by taxing the goods that came through the trade center. Other materials that were popular within trading in Ghana were ivory, slaves, horses, swords, spices, silks, and even books from Europeans.

Because Ghana had a large military force, they would charge people for protection if they so desired it when trading to protect themselves and their goods. The fact that Ghana had many trade routes that were well protected also encouraged other merchants to come to Ghana and trade. With the amount of protection on the trade routes and the large number of trade routes, Ghana was given the nickname The Gold Coast. Because so many people trade through Ghana, Ghana was essentially a melting pot, spreading ideas, culture, technology and other aspects of what makes different societies what they were.

Eventually the Kingdom of Ghana came to its downfall; a decline in power. Ghana was attacked by other regions who were in need of the resources that Ghana possessed. The Kingdom of Ghana eventually merged with Mali, which became one of the largest empires in African history and one of the richest as well. Much testimony on ancient Ghana depended on how well disposed the king was to foreign travellers, from which the majority of information on the empire comes. Islamic writers often commented on the social-political stability of the empire based on the seemingly just actions and grandeur of the king.

A Moorish nobleman living in Spain by the name of Al-Bakri questioned merchants who visited the empire in the 11th century and wrote of the king:. He sits in audience or to hear grievances against officials in a domed pavilion around which stand ten horses covered with gold-embroidered materials. Behind the king stand ten pages holding shields and swords decorated with gold, and on his right are the sons of the kings of his country wearing splendid garments and their hair plaited with gold.

The governor of the city sits on the ground before the king and around him are ministers seated likewise. At the door of the pavilion are dogs of excellent pedigree that hardly ever leave the place where the king is, guarding him. Around their necks they wear collars of gold and silver studded with a number of balls of the same metals. Ghana appears to have had a central core region and was surrounded by vassal states. The Arabic sources, the only ones to give us any information, are sufficiently vague as to how the country was governed, that we can say very little.

Al-Bakri, far and away the most detailed one, does mention that the king had officials mazalim who surrounded his throne when he gave justice, and these included the sons of the "kings of his country" which we must assume are the same kings that al-Ya'qubi mentioned in his account of nearly two hundred years earlier.

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In al-Bakri's time, the rulers of Ghana had begun to incorporate more Muslims into government, including the treasurer, his interpreter and "the majority of his officials. Given the scattered nature of the Arabic sources and the ambiguity of the existing archaeological record, it is difficult to determine when and how Ghana declined and fell. The earliest descriptions of the Empire are vague as to its maximum extent, though according to al-Bakri, Ghana had forced Awdaghost in the desert to accept its rule sometime between and Ghana was combined in the kingdom of Mali in marking the end of the Ghana Empire.

A tradition in historiography maintains that Ghana fell when it was sacked by the Almoravid movement in —77, although Ghanaians resisted attack for a decade. Conrad and Fisher argued that the notion of any Almoravid military conquest at its core is merely perpetuated folklore, derived from a misinterpretation or naive reliance on Arabic sources. Burkhalter was sceptical of Conrad and Fisher's arguments and suggested that there was reasons to believe that there was conflict between the Almoravids and the empire of Ghana.

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While there is no clear-cut account of a sack of Ghana in the contemporary sources, the country certainly did convert to Islam, for al-Idrisi, whose account was written in , has the country fully Muslim by that date. Ibn Khaldun , a fourteenth-century North African historian who read and cited both al-Bakri and al-Idrisi, does report an ambiguous account of the country's history as related to him report 'Uthman, a faqih of Ghana who took a pilgrimage to Mecca in , that the power of Ghana waned as that of the "veiled people" grew, through the Almoravid movement.

According to Ibn Khaldun, following Ghana's conversion, "the authority of the rulers of Ghana dwindled away and they were overcome by the Sosso According to much later traditions, from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Diara Kante took control of Koumbi Saleh and established the Diarisso Dynasty.

His son, Soumaoro Kante , succeeded him and forced the people to pay him tribute. The Sosso also managed to annex the neighboring Mandinka state of Kangaba to the south, where the important goldfields of Bure were located. In his brief overview of Sudanese history, ibn Khaldun related that "the people of Mali outnumbered the peoples of the Sudan in their neighborhood and dominated the whole region. Delafosse assigned an arbitrary but widely accepted date of to the event.

After Soumaoro's defeat at the Battle of Kirina in a date again assigned arbitrarily by Delafosse , the new rulers of Koumbi Saleh became permanent allies of the Mali Empire. The word Ghana means "warriors" and was the title given to the rulers of the original kingdom whose Soninke name was Ouagadou.

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Kaya Maghan lord of the gold was another title for these kings. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with the modern country, Ghana. This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. When He becomes the Lord or dictator of all you have you understand that He owns it all — you are just a custodian of the things in your possession — and the looking after of those things is His responsibility.

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