What Changed The Life Of African Americans

In Africa women were in a class below men but above slaves. This means that they were able to work but were selected based on their skills. For example they were chosen to work in mines if they were smaller and fields if they were stronger. Slaves are different than the ones we had is early America, mainly because they were usually prisoners of war. Slaves were either sacrificed, turned into a soldier or put on a plantation (a slaves worst job). This lifestyle was hard on the slaves but they had good living quarters. Sometimes as good as the people living in the house, unlike slaves quarters that Americans gave them.

The Sahara Desert was actually good for the people that lived near it for many reasons. The first and most important, was that trading of goods was started there. It is not known when but when it did, the people became very successful. The first to start trading were the Berbers. They traded manufactured goods and food in Ghana and carried them across the Sahara Desert. The goods ended up in Mediterranean markets. Another benefit was that religious and cultural ideas were spread along this path. This had an impact by improving the lives of the people and their society. …show more content…
Farmers in Ghana formed villages which eventually united into a state. Ghana started in the fifth century in the area between the Sahara and the forests of the west african coast. The state later declined in the twelfth century do to