This state was ruled by a Mand?group known as the Soninke, who suffered an interregnum in the eleventh century when Abdullah ibn Yasin's Sanhajah and other Almoravids invaded. It was occupied by the Susu three years after being conquered in 1200 by Sumanguru, and by 1240 it disintegrated following the sack of its capital, located in modern Mauritania and known as Kumbi Saleh. Located at the southe
This state was ruled by a Mand?group known as the Soninke, who suffered an interregnum in the eleventh century when Abdullah ibn Yasin's Sanhajah and other Almoravids invaded. It was occupied by the Susu three years after being conquered in 1200 by Sumanguru, and by 1240 it disintegrated following the sack of its capital, located in modern Mauritania and known as Kumbi Saleh. Located at the southern end of trans-Saharan trade routes, where its gold could be exchanged for Saharan salt, this long-lived empire was the first African trading state. FTP, name this empire which shares its name with a modern country founded by Kwame Nkrumah whose capital is Accra.
This state was ruled by a Mand?group known as the Soninke, who suffered an interregnum in the eleventh century when Abdullah ibn Yasin's Sanhajah and other Almoravids invaded.
Ghana Empire [accept Wagadou before it is read]