Sample
Summaries after sample
, The coast of West Africa before
the arrival of Europeans
• Ashanti Kingdom/Gold Coast is now called Ghana.
• Akan speakers were divided into small chiefdoms.
• Lived off the land.
• Well-organised state.
• Traded gold, slaves, and ivory with North Africa
along the trans-Saharan desert trade route.
U2: Case Study:
The Ashanti
Sample kingdom
•
The Ashanti and their early contact
with European traders and explorers
The Akans increased their wealth and power through
trading - established a powerful military state in 1701.
•
Summaries after sample
Kumasi became the capital, gold mines were owned by
Results of colonisation for the royals, and gold dust became the currency.
• By 1750, the Ashanti army had conquered surrounding
Ashanti kingdom and Britain tribes and included them in their kingdom.
• Colonists built railways, roads, bridges, schools,
prisons, public buildings, hospitals, exported gold,
metal ores, diamonds, ivory, pepper, timber,
The British and the colonisation
grain, cocoa, and built hydroelectric projects for
water supply. of the Gold Coast
• They used chiefs for local government under
• In 1817, an African Company of Merchants was formed, and a
British authority.
friendship treaty was formed with the Ashanti people.
• The Ashanti kingdom, with 80 000 troops, fought against the
British in a series of wars that lasted 76 years.
• Britain expanded its influence by buying the Dutch Coast.
• In 1874, British troops invaded the Ashanti territory, captured
the Golden Stool, and exiled the king.
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Summaries after sample
, The coast of West Africa before
the arrival of Europeans
• Ashanti Kingdom/Gold Coast is now called Ghana.
• Akan speakers were divided into small chiefdoms.
• Lived off the land.
• Well-organised state.
• Traded gold, slaves, and ivory with North Africa
along the trans-Saharan desert trade route.
U2: Case Study:
The Ashanti
Sample kingdom
•
The Ashanti and their early contact
with European traders and explorers
The Akans increased their wealth and power through
trading - established a powerful military state in 1701.
•
Summaries after sample
Kumasi became the capital, gold mines were owned by
Results of colonisation for the royals, and gold dust became the currency.
• By 1750, the Ashanti army had conquered surrounding
Ashanti kingdom and Britain tribes and included them in their kingdom.
• Colonists built railways, roads, bridges, schools,
prisons, public buildings, hospitals, exported gold,
metal ores, diamonds, ivory, pepper, timber,
The British and the colonisation
grain, cocoa, and built hydroelectric projects for
water supply. of the Gold Coast
• They used chiefs for local government under
• In 1817, an African Company of Merchants was formed, and a
British authority.
friendship treaty was formed with the Ashanti people.
• The Ashanti kingdom, with 80 000 troops, fought against the
British in a series of wars that lasted 76 years.
• Britain expanded its influence by buying the Dutch Coast.
• In 1874, British troops invaded the Ashanti territory, captured
the Golden Stool, and exiled the king.
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