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Ghana Museum
Arts & Culture
Because gold was so prevalent in ancient Ghana, jewelry was made from it, although only kings and nobility wore it. Gold was also used in many of their coins and other art forms.
Environment
Economics
Landscape
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Landscape
Ghana had a stable economy, based off of trade. They became a wealthy kingdom due to controlling the trade routes for salt and gold. Agriculture was very important to their kingdom.
Ghana was also a major education hub
Gold mask, 20 cm in height, weighing 3 pounds of pure gold, seized by the British from Kumasi, Ghana. The exact date that this mask was made and what its purpose was is still debated.
Ghana rises from a heavily populated plain along the Gulf of Guinea to the Kwahu Plateau. The plateau runs from the northwest to the southeast across central Ghana. A thick forest covers southwestern Ghana. North of the plateau, the land gradually becomes a Savanna (grassy, thinly wooded plain), and then grassland.
Resources
Watch Salt Video
(2:03 - 3:16)
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Ghana’s main agriculture was cocoa beans. Ghana is an agricultural country, but it has important mineral deposits. Cacao is the most important crop and the country's chief export. Other important crops include coconuts, coffee, kola nuts, and kernels (seeds) from palm trees. Valuable tropical hardwood trees, such as mahogany, grow in Ghana's forests.
Government
Salt was an important factor to Ghana's economy. Since Ghana controlled the trade routes, they taxed the salt going in and out of the country.
Watch Cocoa Beans Video
The government in Ghana was a monarchy. There were a number of kings below the king. Later, Ghana incorporated more Muslims into the government. Citizens were allowed to voice out their complaints to the king and the king would then give his judgement on the topic.
Science & Technology
Religion
Society
Ghana was VERY advanced for their time. They created, and used things that no one had ever invented before. They were one of the first in Africa to create iron tools. They used them for things like houses, buildings, carpentry, pottery, stone masonry, mining, and much more.
Islam spread to many parts of Ghana through traders from the Trans-Saharan trades. Many mosques were built in order for them to practice.
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Different sources give different figures for the number of languages of Ghana. This is because of different classifications of varieties as either languages or dialects.
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Iron was used to produce strong weapons and tools that made the empire strong.
Gold was used to trade with other nations for needed resources like livestock, tools, and cloth.