Early Leaders And Great Kingdo

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trade, established Ghana. They were superior metalworkers and produced iron swords and other weapons by which they conquered neighboring peoples and maintained control over their territory. The empire's growth and development were relatively slow until Ghana began to trade with Arab ports on the Mediterranean coast and with other kingdoms of East Africa on the Red Sea. The Mali Empire differed substantially from the Ghana empire. Its rise to power began in the seventh century, when two great African leaders -- Sundiara Keita and Mansa Musa, transformed a small Mandingo state on the upper Niger River. Although Sundiata Keita began to transform the state into a great empire, its growth was slow until about I307, when Mansa Musa became ruler. His entourage of sixty thousand persons, including twelve thousand servants, many as five hundred servants each carried a pure gold weighing six pounds. Eighty camels carried an average of three hundred pounds of gold each. For a ...

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