Location
Where was Ghana located?
Western Africa
Ghana grew wealthy off of what?
Taxation
Iron was used for what?
To make strong weapons
When did Ghana convert to Islam?
In the 1940s
Ghana has the biggest what?
Man-made lake
What does the empire of Ghana lie south to?
The Sahara Desert
How else did Ghana get wealthy?
By mining gold and iron
What made Ghana stronger?
The weapons they made with iron
Where was Islam very popular?
Middle East
What does Ghana mean?
“Warrior king”
The Niger River served as what two things?
For transportation and trade
What living things did Ghana trade that made them wealthy?
Slaves
They figured out that what made it easier to transport and trade?
Camels
Islam was destined to what?
Travel across the world
One war for Ghana lasted how many years?
77 years
Archeologists estimated that about how many people live in the capital city?
20,000
When they entered and exited Ghana
What was Ghana’s most important landform?
The Sahara Desert
The Middle east would bring Islam to what?
Ancient Africa
What was the first African country to adopt Islam?
Ethiopia
What was the capital city of Ghana?
Koumbi Saleh
When the king wasn’t busy enforcing his power among the people he was doing what?
Enforcing his power internationally through trade
What did they invent?
The wooden wheel
Who mainly brought Islam to ancient africa? (Four different kinds of people)
merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries
How do Ghanaians name their children?
Based on the day they were born