The Mali Empire was one of the world’s major producers of gold, and at the time, many of the coins used in southern Europe could be traced back to West Africa. Through the expansion of their ...
At the time, the Mali empire extended through 2,000 miles of West Africa, from what today is Niger in the east, through parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and ...
What made Mansa Musa so absurdly wealthy? Through being a trade hub connecting the interior and southern coasts of West Africa with North Africa across the Sahara desert's caravan routes, the Mali ...