The Rise and Fall of the Ghana Empire
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2021
- Ghana is one of the earliest known Negro empires in recorded history. It was a West African Empire located in the area of present day southeastern Mauritania, and Western Mali.
It was first mentioned by an Arab geographer, Al-Fazari, in AD 773 in his book Al- Masudi, where he referred to it as a “land of gold”.
Ghana is also found on the Islamic world map produced by a Persian geographer, Mohammed Kwarizmi in the 9th century. The Arab traveller Al- Bakri, writing in AD 1067, made it known that the name ‘Ghana’ was the title of the Soninke kingdom called Aoukar (this means war chief). It was the visiting Arabs and people from other parts of Sudan who referred to the kingdom by the title of its kings; and by the 9th century, Aoukar was popularly known as ‘Ghana’.
It is not yet certain when Ghana was founded. But from Arabs sources, particularly the Tarikh as Sudan, it appears to have been founded by a Soninke dynasty between 300 - 400AD.
The Ghana Empire was situated on the grasslands north of the headwaters of the rivers Senegal and Niger. Its capital, Kumbi Saleh, is said to have been founded by Kaya Maghan who is reputed to have overthrown the immigrant minority ruling class of ‘whites’ about 770AD (those are the products of inter-marriages between Berbers settlers and Negro indigenes) and established a pure Soninke dynasty.
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The ancient Ghana empire is DIFFERENT from modern day Ghana, we learn everyday 😮😊.
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So the Ghana Empire is different from the present day Ghana. ,👍
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Yhyh, but the Akans of Cote D'Ivoire and present day Ghana came from the ancient Ghana empire, hence the name
@@obibiniba right like we have no roots there
@@obibiniba very true , the akans migrated from old walata ...( Part of ancient Ghana)
@@obibiniba If I’m not mistaken J.C. Degraft-Johnson a Ghanaian historian proposed this. However the Soninke language and the Twi languages are in completely different language families. Thus it’s highly unlikely that there’s some connection there.
With that being said. The Soninke merchant class known as traders of gold had an enormous trade network in West Africa. And to this day, we can find Mande speakers in modern Ghana nearby the goldmines.
That's the only link I can think of between Modern Ghana and Ancient Ghana/Wagadu.
I had a student day “they always say they traded goods. What goods are they talking about?”, thank you for listing some of the items out! Very helpful
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Aoukar means our home aOu mean is Kar means home yes I am Soninke
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this seems a very interesting video, but can't understand nothing because of your microphone qualiy!!! 😡😡😡😡😡
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I wouldn't say the Ghanian empire completely dissolved as it came back as Ghana 😁
Well following the evidence. The only link the modern day Ghana has to ancient Ghana is the Soninke traders. Known as the Wangara which later became a ethnicity. That also included Mandinka speaking groups.
These Soninke descendants are still in modern Ghana today in a city named Begho.
All in all. It needs more deep research.
Yes begho is where we settled initially when we arrived in ghana but we further dispersed up north forming the Savannah region of present day ghana(GONJAs). We are the Mende warriors of Old Gh empire. And yes some of us are in “begho” 🙏🏾
Thanks for this. Sick of looking up African history and seeing enslaved people pop up first. If that ain’t propaganda, then I don’t know what is. Africa was/is a powerful continent.
Now I know more about Ghana
If you watch the video to the end, the creator explained that the Gold Coast on gaining independence in 1957 adopted the name of the long gone empire (Ghana).
So that means the old Ghana and the new are not the same
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I don't get the role of the Almoravids better, who are they and why are they interfering with West African Empire of Ghana
Stay tune as a video that will explain who the Almoravids are? And why they invaded the Ghana Empire will be released in due time.
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The Almoravids were in alliance with the kingdom of Takrur. Which was a vassal of the Ghana Empire, the commoners of Takrur were forcefully islamized by king War Jabi according to Al-Bakri.
This, likely a contributor for the Almoravids to sack Kumbi, the capital. Also because Wagadu was the dominant force for that part of the Trans-Saharan trade network.
So what was the name of the people in modern day Ghana? Was it different tribes or where they organized as a empire???
Modern day Ghana was called Gold Coast back then
@fiifiegyir6947 Gold Coast was given to the country Ghana by the European invaders. Who were the present day Ghanaians before the name Gold Coast came about and so on…
Gana not Ghana please.
Just pure distortion & fiction
Poor research... We can do better than this..
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