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  2. History of Ghana - Wikipedia

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    The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...

  3. Early history of Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Early Ghanaians used Acheulean stone tools as hunter gatherers during the Early stone age. These stone tools evolved throughout the Middle and Late Stone Ages, during which some early Ghanaians inhabited caves. Sedentism was first established between 2000 and 500 BC, where crops such as Sorghum and millet were farmed.

  4. Medieval and early modern Africa - Wikipedia

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    Ghana was first mentioned by Arab geographer Al-Farazi in the late 8th century. Ghana was inhabited by urban dwellers and rural farmers. The urban dwellers were the administrators of the empire, who were Muslims, and the Ghana (king), who practiced traditional religion. Two towns existed, one where the Muslim administrators and Berber-Arabs ...

  5. Timeline of Ghanaian history - Wikipedia

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    2002 May - National Truth and reconciliation commission inaugurated by President Kufuor, with the purpose to investigate human rights violations during Ghana's military rule. 2003 October - Government approves merger of two gold-mining firms, leading to the formation of AngloGold Ashanti. 2004 December - John Kufuor re-elected as president of ...

  6. Ghana Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana, [2] Ghanata, or Wagadu, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali. It is uncertain among historians when Ghana's ruling dynasty began.

  7. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    Only kingdoms and tribal kingdoms as per Elman Service's classifications that were once independent are included, excluding bands, tribes, and most chiefdoms.The intercontinental Islamic empires that covered parts of North and Northeast Africa are not included, and should be discussed as part of the Muslim world, however the residual fragments that had their capital on the continent of Africa are.

  8. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    A map with Elmina Castle ("Mina"), Ghana, one in a chain of about fifty fortified factories to enforce Portuguese trade rule along the coast, 1563. Preperations before the Fall of Tenochtitlan, Codex Durán. European colonization of both Eastern and Western Hemispheres has its roots in Portuguese exploration. There were financial and religious ...

  9. Political history of Ghana - Wikipedia

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    The Political history of Ghana recounts the history of varying political systems that existed in Ghana during pre-colonial times, the colonial era and after independence.. Pre-colonial Ghana was made up of several states and ethnic groups whose political system was categorized by 3 main administrative models; Centralized, Non-centralized and Theocratic stat