Trade In Ghana Essay
explanatory Essay
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The role of trade in the rise and fall in Ghana
With regards to the given question it would be a fair evaluation to agree that the rise and fall of trade in ancient Ghana was largely attributed to a number of factors. Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically, racially, or in any other way, related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles North West of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania. As mentioned above there are a number of aspects or better put factors which contributed to the rise and fall in ancient Ghana therefore a critical analysis will given as to how these events / factors led to the downfall of Ghana. An overview will thus be given on what trade encompassed and how it in turn led to the rise of Ghana and how it eventually led to the downfall of the country.
According to dictionary.com, trade refers to buying and selling or exchanging of good between various countries or even within inside a country, identified as a foreign trade or even domestic trade. Trade is also described...
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the rise and fall of trade in ancient ghana was largely attributed to a number of factors.
- Explains that trade refers to buying and selling or exchanging of goods between various countries or even within a country.
- Explains that ghana and its capital, kumbi-saleh, were situated on one of the main trade routes across the sahara and had grown into a rich and developed civilisation.
- Explains that 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 during this particular time period.
- Explains that ancient ghana derived its supremacy and riches from gold and the introduction of the camel during the trans-saharan trade.
- Explains how the king of ghana controlled all the gold – salt routes across west africa and collected taxes from any traders and all goods entering or leaving his land.
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