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The city of Ghana consists of two towns. One is inhabited by Muslims and has twelve mosques, salaried imams and muezzins, and jurists and scholars. In the environs are wells with sweet water, from which they drink and with which they grow vegetables. . . . The king's interpreters, the official in charge of his treasury and the majority of his ministers are Muslims. Only royalty may wear sewn clothes. All other people wear robes of cotton, silk, or brocade, according to their means. . . . The king adorns himself like a woman, wearing necklaces round his neck and bracelets on his forearms. . . . He sits . . . in a domed pavilion around which stand ten horses. When people who profess the same religion as the king approach him they fall on their knees and sprinkle dust on their heads, for this is their way of greeting him. As for the Muslims, they greet him only by clapping their hands. [The people's] religion is paganism and the worship of idols. . . . On every donkey-load of salt when it is brought into the country their king levies one golden dinar, and two dinars when it is sent out. From a load of copper the king's due is five mithqals, and from a load of other goods ten mithqals. . . . The nuggets found in all the mines of his country are reserved for the king, only this gold dust being left for the people. But for this the people would accumulate gold until it lost its value. Beyond this country lies another called Malal, the king of which was sincerely attached to Islam, while the common people of his kingdom remained polytheists. Since then their rulers have been given the title of al-musulmani .
—The Book of Routes and Realms , by Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri, eleventh-century Muslim historian and geographer
What evidence is there in the passage that Ghanians were engaged, directly or indirectly, in trade with Asia?

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  1. The Ghanian king had adopted the Chinese tradition of the kow-tow .
  2. The Ghanians grew vegetables, which may have been Asian in origin.
  3. They kept horses in their court, which would have come from the Mongols.
  4. The king collected nuggets from mines, possibly hinting at trade relations with Asian miners.
  5. The people paid taxes in gold, indicating wealth from trade.
  6. The king adorned himself with gold and jewels, probably from India.
  7. The people in his court wore silk robes.
  8. The Ghanians had wells with sweet water, possibly influenced by Asian irrigation techniques.
  9. The king's ministers were Muslims, suggesting trade with the Middle East.
  10. The king wore necklaces and bracelets, possibly made of Asian materials.

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4772
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