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	Western Sudan, 500–1000 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		In the eleventh century, Kumbi Saleh is described as two separate towns, one distinctly Islamic, containing many mosques.
		Although considered the permanent capital of the Ghana empire by some, Kumbi Saleh's significance may have been more intermittent as the locus of political power shifted from one site to another.
		Audaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Kumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana empire.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/sfw/ht06sfw.htm (648 words)

	Adventures of Mauritania: Kumbi Salah
		Kumbi Salah is not on the main track, you will need a good 4WD and an even better guide in order to arrive here,- far out into the sand dunes.
		Kumbi Salah did once have as much as 30,000 inhabitants, and was the capital of the empire of Ghana.
		There is more to be done in the field of archaeology, but impressive stone quarters have been revealed, as well as one out of the 12 enormous mosques that Kumbi Salah had in its heyday.
	lexicorient.com /mauritania/kumbisal.htm (122 words)

	Koumbi Saleh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koumbi Saleh was the capital of the Ghana Empire.
		Koumbi Saleh dates back to the third century CE, when its Mandé founders and neighboring Sanhaja Berbers controlled the trade routes between Koumbi Saleh, Aoudaghost, and Timbuctu.
		In the seventh century, the Ghana Empire rose to dominate the region, with Koumbi Saleh as its capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kumbi_Saleh (231 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - History & Culture
		They built their capital city, Kumbi Saleh, right on the edge of the Sahara and the city quickly became the most dynamic and important southern terminus of the Saharan trade routes.
		Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade, with a systematic form of taxation.
		The Islamic community at Kumbi Saleh remained a separate community quite a distance away from the King's palace.
	ghana.co.uk /history/history/ancient_ghana.htm (658 words)

	::::::: Kurá Hulanda Museum ::: West African ::: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The remains of the Muslim capital Kumbi, or Kumbi Saleh, were discovered in 1914 at the Mauritania - Bonnel Meziere.
		Kumbi was inhabited mostly by Arab and Berber merchants, all Muslims.
		Kumbi fell in 1067 precluding the end of the empire." In 1203, the Sosso king Sumanguru recaptured the city from the Almoravids.
	www.kurahulanda.com /virtual_guide/west_african.html (1206 words)

	Ancient Ghana
		They built their capital city, Kumbi Saleh, right on the edge of the Sahara and the city quickly became the most dynamic and important southern terminus of the Saharan trade routes.
		Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade, with a systematic form of taxation.
		The Islamic community at Kumbi Saleh remained a separate community quite a distance away from the King's palace.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/history/ancient_ghana.php (509 words)

	WorldNet Virginia: Mali - History
		To protect themselves from these raids, the communities of African farmers joined forces, possibly to form a loose federation of states that eventually became the kingdom of Ghana.
		During the third century A.D., it is probable that a Soninke chief succeeded in uniting the Soninke people (the northernmost Mande peoples) and possibly founded the city of Kumbi Saleh (in present-day western Mali).
		Kumbi Saleh was an oasis along an important north-south trade route.
	mali.pwnet.org /history/history_ghana_empire.htm (771 words)

	Africa - MSN Encarta
		From their capital at Kumbi Saleh (Koumbi Saleh) Ghana’s rulers were able to tax the gold trade and build an empire which by 1000 stretched from the Sénégal River valley in the west to the great bend of the Niger River in the east.
		Increased competition combined with overexploitation of the environment at Kumbi Saleh led to the decline and eventual breakup of the Kingdom of Ghana in the early 13th century.
		Soninke and Mandinka (also known as Mandingo or Malinke) clans were among the first to break away from Ghana.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572628_26/Africa.html (935 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		The capital of Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade, with a systematic form of taxation.
		Then it curved round to the south east through Awdaghust, finally ending up in Kumbi Saleh - the royal town of Ghana.
		Initially, the Islamic community at Kumbi Saleh remained a separate community some distance away from the king's palace.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/4chapter1.shtml (912 words)

	Walata \| The empire of Ghana.
		After a few days, when we leave behind us the red houses of Walata with their spectacular decoration, we shall continue to go deeper into the remains of the Empire of Ghana with a visit to its former capital of Koumbi Saleh, which we reach from Timbedra.
		Kumbi Saleh - Aioun el Atrus (option directly by track, according to the time of year)
		Kumbi Saleh – Aioun, by Sahel tracks, taking in 'pel' settlements.
	www.walata.org /2005/eng/itinerar_2.htm (639 words)

	Ornament Magazine The Art And Craft of Personal Adornment
		With the introduction of the camel, the region’s exclusive resources could be sent to population centers in North Africa and the Middle East in exchange for manufactured goods.
		Kumbi Saleh, whose ruins remain near the town of Kiffa, is believed to have been the empire’s capital, and in its heyday had a population of thirty thousand, mainly Arab and Berber merchants and their families.
		Glass beads are still found along the trade routes, in the vicinity of old trade centers of the Ghana Empire, such as Tegadoust, Oualata, Tichitt and Akrejit, or in the sand dunes covering the ruins of Kumbi Saleh, where women still search for ancient treasures during the rainy season.
	www.ornamentmagazine.com /current293.html (1151 words)

	COUNTRY PROFILE: MALI
		From its capital in Kumbi Saleh on the edge of the Library of Congress — Federal Research Division Country Profile: Mali, January 2005 desert, the empire expanded throughout southeastern Mauritania, southwestern Mali, and northern Senegal from about A.D. The Soninké kings never fully adopted Islam, but the empire had good relations with Muslim traders.
		Nevertheless, the Ghana Empire fell in 1078 as a result of invasions by the Almoravids, nomadic Muslim Berbers who expanded and spread Islam throughout northwest Africa in the late eleventh century.
		Kumbi Saleh was destroyed in 1203 by a former vassal state, the anti-Muslim Soso Kingdom, which ultimately controlled the southern portions of the former Ghana Empire.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Mali.html (9696 words)

	Adventure Trips visiting West Africa \| 4 Corners Club
		The empire was founded in the eighth century by Soninke, a Mandé peoples who lived at the crossroads of this new trade, around the city of Kumbi Saleh.
		In the tenth century, however, Islam was steadily growing in the region, and in 1052 the Almoravids launched a jihad against the empire, sacking Kumbi Saleh.
		The first successor to the Ghana Empire was that of the Sosso, a Takrur people who built their empire on the ruins of the old.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/west_africa/region_facts (2102 words)

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		Mali was formed between 1230 and 1240 A.C., when the Malinké (also called Mandingo), led by their warrior king Sundiata Kita con-quered many neighboring cities and lands.
		In 1235 Sundiata Kita de-feated the Sosso king Sumanguru and the old capital Kumbi Saleh was pillaged.
		Mali formed in about 1235, when warrior, Sundiata defeated the Sosso king Sumanguru at Kirina and sacked the ancient Ghanese capital, Kumbi Saleh.
	www.kurahulanda.com /virtual_guide/west_african_kingdoms.html (2507 words)

	The colonial heritage - in Africa UNESCO Courier - Find Articles
		Closely connected with this was the second social impact of colonialism--urbanization.
		The kingdoms and empires of Africa had such capitals or political centres as Kumbi Saleh, Benin, Ile-Ife, Kumasi, Gao and Zimbabwe, commercial centres such as Kano, Jenne, Sofala and Malindi, and such educational centres as Timbuktu, Cairo and Fez.
		But there is no doubt that, as a result of colonialism, the pace of urbanization was greatly accelerated and completely new towns came into existence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1984_May/ai_3247488/pg_5 (516 words)

	Socialist Action
		So that is what is meant by saying that in the broad patterns of global history, African history is not significantly different from the general course of human social development everywhere else.
		Kumbi Saleh, more than 1,000 years ago, was a thriving commercial city in West Africa, in the Kingdom of Ghana, that had a population of 15 to 20 thousand.
		The history of Kumbi Saleh, not to mention Gao, Jenne, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, or any number of other African cities of the past, is enough to expose the falsity of the commonplace view of Africa as uniformly lacking in civilization.
	www.socialistaction.org /afrocentrism.htm (8088 words)

	Concept Review
		Prominent civilizations that emerged between 800 and 1600 A.D. in the West African savanna were Kumbi (the political center) and Saleh (the commercial center) in Ghana, Timbuktu and Djenne in Mali, and Gao in Songhai.
		Kumbi Saleh was the capital of the first powerful state, Ghana.
		The era of European colonialism can be divided into four main periods.
	wps.prenhall.com /esm_clawson_wrg_8/0,8519,1041514-content,00.utf8.html (1352 words)

	Kumbi Saleh CDs, Vinyl Records, CD Singles, Used CD's and Music Albums - Buy at MusicStack
		Kumbi Saleh CDs, Vinyl Records, CD Singles, Used CD's and Music Albums - Buy at MusicStack
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	www.musicstack.com /search/kumbi+saleh (32 words)

	H-Net Review: Jonathan Rotondo-McCord on The Empire of Ghana: A First Book
		Chapter Three, "Kumbi Saleh," recounts Arabic chroniclers' views of the ancient capital of Ghana, and points out the presence of Islam there.
		Veneration of ancestors, the sacred grove where kings were crowned and buried, and the legend of the guardian snake Bida are explained in Chapter Four, "Religion." Market commodities are also mentioned, somewhat out of place.
		When writing of discoveries at Kumbi Saleh, Green concludes that "during the Middle Ages--when most of the people of Europe suffered disease, fear, ignorance, and oppression--the Soninke people of the Empire of Ghana enjoyed a world that was rich in culture and famous as a center of learning" (pp.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12807943470357 (682 words)

	Government and Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their decline began in the late A.D. 1000's.
		In A.D. 1076 the Berbers invaded from the north and destroyed Kumbi Saleh.
		The Shona people migrated into Zimbabwe and took control over the local people, and with it, the gold that they mined and traded.
	www.angelfire.com /band2/thedarkcontinent/governmentleaders.html (184 words)

	Site archéologique de Kumbi Saleh - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Site archéologique de Kumbi Saleh - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party.
		Le site de Kumbi Saleh, capitale de l'Empire du Ghana a été découvert en 1914 par Bonnel de Mezière, mais il n'a été fouillé qu'a partir de 1939 lorsque Thomassey, Mauny et Lazartigues ont dégagé plusieurs concessions d'une architecture exceptionnelle et d'une richesse extraordinaire en matériel archéologique.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1546 (261 words)

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		The commercial center and chief town of the Ghanans during the Middle Ages was:
		a) Kumbi Saleh; b) Timbuktu; c) Wagadu; d) Bambuhu.
		The first non-African cultural group to influence Ghana was:
	www.uwstout.edu /cas/socsci/kirby/afamstgd.htm (4129 words)

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