African Empire

Farming and Agricultural Production

1235 BCE

Mali had formed a Kingdom. The founders were Mande-speaking people, who lived south of Ghana. Mali had wealth, like Ghana's, building a road to gold. When Ghana was weak, people under control acted independently. Miners found new gold deposits at the far east. This made essential trade routes to shift eastward, making Mali's people more wealthy, and able to seize power.

Culture & Technological Innovations

1100 BCE

The East Coast began to develop into important trade cities, by waves of Bantu-speaking people had migrated across central Africa to the East Coast.

Cultural Diffusion

800 BCE

Ghana formed into an empire, due to it's enormous army, the king could order taxes and gifts from chiefs of other lands. If the chiefs made their payments, the king kept them under control. The palace had gold nuggets and salt slabs, mostly for taxes. Only the king can own gold nuggets, even if gold dust circulates the marketplace in any way, shape, or form. When Ghana accepted Islam, Animism is the belief that spirits living in animals, plants, and natural forces in daily life.

Trade Patterns

700 BCE

The Gold-Salt Trade was an event from the Niger and Senegal Rivers, in which gold was found by miners, but two-thirds of it came from West Africa. And the Saharan village had deposits of salt, and use it to build houses because of it being the only material available.

Government Leaders

19 BCE

Many African people decide to develop systems of governing based on lineages at the south of the Sahara. Within a lineage, members feel strong loyalties.

Religion

19 BCE

Tracing Family Descent, in African Societies, the way a society traces lineage determines how Africans possessions & their property that passed on what group individuals belong to members.