West Africa
By: Emily
I learned about government. Mansa Musa was the king of Mali. During the 1100’s Mali started to switch to islam. Ghana was another place I learned about. The government decided how much gold people could trade and decided how much tax should they put on gold and salt the people traded. The government made money off the trade. Some of the money that the government made was given to the military. The government had a lot of power. They had “complete judicial power.” One other place was Songhai the king of Songhai was Sunny Ali and Songhai’s economy was based on trade. Each village had there own government. Each village choose who they wanted to run there village, it could have been a king, or a group of elders, it was based on the village. The government in West Africa is sort of like it is today.
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