Question

The first great West African kingdom was _____.
Mali
Ghana
Bantu
Mauritania

Answer 1

Answer: Ghana

Explanation: The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadou (Arabic: غانا) or Awkar, was a West African empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali that existed from c. 300 until c. 1100.

Answer 2

Ghana

Step-by-step explanation:

The first great west African Kingdom was Ghana, founded new the 300 AD, with the city of Koumbi Saleh as its capital, the West African Kingdom of Ghana was succesful because it controlled trans-saharan trade and several gold deposits that made the empire very wealthy and powerful. The myth says that the Ghanese kingdom had so much money that the horses and camels of the king were tied up to rocks of gold.