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City dwellers in Ancient Ghana wore expensive clothing, owned objects of art, swords, copper utensils, foreign products, ate exotic foods, especially citrus fruit, but most of the population didn't live that way. Most people lived in large family communities. 80% of the population lived in farming compounds. Since the people were in fact, a large family, the women cooked, ate, worked, and entertained together, and the men hunted and worked the fields together. |
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A woman and child exercising traditional religion. |
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Mansa Musa converted to Islam to keep up relations but most still practiced traditional religions. |
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Village houses were made out of sun-dried mud or acacia wood and stone. Because of the hot climate they were used mainly for storage and sleeping while a great many activities took place outside. |
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Myths were told and before a written language was made people called Griots (GREE-ohs) were like the text books of today. They told stories and gave lessons on history. |
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