Trade In Ghana Essay

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The role of trade in the rise and fall in Ghana
With regards to the given question it would be a fair evaluation to agree that the rise and fall of trade in ancient Ghana was largely attributed to a number of factors. Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically, racially, or in any other way, related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles North West of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania. As mentioned above there are a number of aspects or better put factors which contributed to the rise and fall in ancient Ghana therefore a critical analysis will given as to how these events / factors led to the downfall of Ghana. An overview will thus be given on what trade encompassed and how it in turn led to the rise of Ghana and how it eventually led to the downfall of the country.
According to dictionary.com, trade refers to buying and selling or exchanging of good between various countries or even within inside a country, identified as a foreign trade or even domestic trade. Trade is also described...

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