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The Asante Kingdom (African Civilizations) |  | Author: Carol Thompson
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2049168
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0531202879
Dewey Decimal Number: 966.7018
EAN: 9780531202876
ASIN: 0531202879
Publication Date: March 1999
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Surveys the history and culture of the Asante Kingdom in West Africa, from its founding in the late seventeenth century to its clashes with the British and eventual decline in the nineteenth century.
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It helps fill a gap in the history of Africa before the European colonial era August 2, 2007
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In general, the history of the world as it is taught to U. S. schoolchildren describes the great empires of Egypt that built the pyramids over four thousand years ago and then there is little more about Africa. When it is mentioned, the topic is the slave trade but there is nothing about the powerful empires and great civilizations that existed south of the Sahara desert.
One such kingdom was the Asante kingdom that ruled what is now the African nation of Ghana. It rose to prominence in the late seventeenth century and was a flourishing nation that traded in gold and raided the neighboring tribes to capture the people and sell them into slavery. After Great Britain abolished the slave trade, the British decided to take control of the Asante Empire. After years of fierce resistance, the Asante territory was incorporated into the British Colony of the Gold Coast. However, British control was always somewhat tenuous and Ghana was the first European colony in Africa to be granted independence.
Written at the level of the middle school student, this is a book that helps satisfy a great need. There were many times throughout history when great nations flourished in Africa south of the Sahara desert. However, as history is taught, before the Europeans arrived it was a savage "dark continent" lacking most of the characteristics that we associate with higher civilizations. That is a false premise and this book describes one of the greatest of the African powers.
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