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African Civilizations Part 1: Gold Coast part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbr_FYu2ee4&mode=related&search=
Websites on Ghana:
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Websites on Ghana:
http://endingstereotypesforamerica.org/ghana.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/4chapter1.shtml
Ibn Battuta
http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2002&x=arabviews
West African empries
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ULiQLBo3rCY pt 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=glOXTOwqjsk pt1.5
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oK07In8iRaA pt 2
100 things you didn't know about Africa
http://www.whenweruled.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=38
24. By 250 BC, the foundations of West Africa's oldest cities were established such as Old Djenné in Mali.
25. Kumbi Saleh, the capital of Ancient Ghana, flourished from 300 to 1240 AD. Located in modern day Mauritania, archaeological excavations have revealed houses, almost habitable today, for want of renovation and several storeys high. They had underground rooms, staircases and connecting halls. Some had nine rooms. One part of the city alone is estimated to have housed 30,000 people.
26. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: "There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece."
28. Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
29. Ibn Haukal, writing in 951 AD, informs us that the King of Ghana was "the richest king on the face of the earth" whose pre-eminence was due to the quantity of gold nuggets that had been amassed by the himself and by his predecessors.
31. West Africa had bling culture in 1067 AD. One source mentions that when the Emperor of Ghana gives audience to his people: "he sits in a pavilion around which stand his horses caparisoned in cloth of gold: behind him stand ten pages holding shields and gold-mounted swords: and on his right hand are the sons of the princes of his empire, splendidly clad and with gold plaited into their hair . . . The gate of the chamber is guarded by dogs of an excellent breed . . . they wear collars of gold and silver."
32. Glass windows existed at that time. The residence of the Ghanaian Emperor in 1116 AD was: "A well-built castle, thoroughly fortified, decorated inside with sculptures and pictures, and having glass windows." (Less)
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