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Made and forced every trader pay a special tax to go in and out of Ghana.
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Silent Barter is a process people invented where they exchanged goods whithout contacting each other
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Ghana was attacked by a group called Almoravids. These two groups fought for 14 years. But finally, Ghana gets defeated. The Almoravids did rule for long, but they did weaken it for sure. In this time trade routes were blocked, and new contracts were made. This action made Ghana even weaker.
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Sunidata starts a new empire, called Mali He conquered many lands including Ghana
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After Sundiata's reign, Mansa Musa came to power and ruled for about 25 years. He is know as the wealthiest man of all time, and had 9 times the wealth of Bill Gates!
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Mansa Musa, completed his Hajj during his time of power because all Muslims have to do this once in their life. The most surprising thing is he handed out pieces of gold on the way to Mecca to citizens! This caused their economy to a depression; He caused three major cities to go into a depression! Can you believe that!
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Mali was later weakened and people of Songhai gained independence
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Sunni Ali becomes the New emperor of this new empire
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Another army, the Morrocan Army wants a war with the Songhai empire
