Ancient Ghana Emerges
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: African History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Mali, Mauritania
- Date: 4th-11th centuries
Article abstract: Ghana, identified in Arabic historic accounts dating from the ninth to seventeenth centuries c.e. and in archaeological remains, became the first state established in West Africa.
Summary of Event
The ancient state of Ghana arose in the land-locked Sahel region of western Mali and southwestern Mauritania, West Africa (not in Ghana, the contemporary nation situated on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean farther south, which nonetheless took its name from the ancient empire). Ancient Ghana is important because it was the first West African...
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