G+Fourteen

**the Sahara desert covers most of Africa and is very big.**
==//**Trade-**// the people in Africa started trading when they started planting vegetables and fruit, they got more money. They traded salt for gold, they need the salt because they had to put it in there foods because then it would be nasty. The trade routes were in the Sahara dessert. The most important item to rade was salt and gold.==

==Culture :Food-In Western Africa, people grow cassava, maize, millet, and plantains for food. Cameroonians may eat beans and plantains accompanied by baton de magnioc, or manioc sticks. In Gabon, fish is prepared in a spicy sauce and served with rice. Most cultures in Africa remain very traditional–women and girls do most of the cooking. == =http://www.africanculturalcenter.org/5_4_1food.html=

==Empire of Ghana: The people of were being threatened by nomadic herders they came in groups in protection, and that was the beginning of Ghana. they grew stronger and stronger and they started to farm.==

Empire of Mali:
==**Sundiata the son of the last emperor had to overcome great hardship before he build the empire. but before when he was a child a king ruled Mali and treated the people poorly Sundiata grew up hated him.**==

Mansa Muse-He lived in the late 1200s and early 1300s,He lived in Mali
==**Mansa Musa had lots of money he gave it away. Mansa Musa traveled the desert with 100 camels and about 60,000 people they were each carrying gold, 500 were slaves.Each camel carried 100 pounds of dust.**==

**He lived through out 1443-1538**
==**He became the ruler of songhai when he turned 50 years old, He ruled Songhai for about 35 years.when he turned 80 he went blind so his son Musa made him leave the throne. he left to a island to live, he live there for 9 years until his other sons took him back to the capital were he died.**==



**And this is one of Mali artistic work**


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