We don't have many written records of Saharan Africa.
Mansa Musa was the legendary king of western africa.
Mansa Musa also gave lots of his fortune to ordinary people.
Mansa Musa's story made europeans think that western africa was a land of gold.
Mansa Musa was muslim.
Timbuktu was turned to Islam.
Islam was the religion of the elites in africa.
Mansa Musa's successor was Mansa Sulamin. I wonder if that's how to spell Sulamin.
Islam was adopted in Ghana.
Ivin Batuta (Is this how it spelled?) had a wonderful life, travelling everywhere, and he was treated like a king wherever he travelled.
Swahili Civilization was a bunch of city states.
Swahili Civilization brought iron work and agriculture.
Swahili is a Bantu based language.
The Elites of Africa wanted religious and commercial connection to the Mediterranean World.
Old houses in africa had bookshelves in them.
Mansa Musa's history may be a legend.
Islam in africa was mainly in sub-saharan africa.
It is not true that people that can't write are not civilized.
Plato said that books ruined memory because you would not need to remember anything, which, of course, was not true.
Mansa Musa built houses in Cairo and Mecca.
Some africans still worshipped their ordinary gods, while some others worshipped Allah and the islam religion.
All the major swahili cities were found before islam hit africa.
Later, the swahili cities had mosques in them.
Egypt is an example of islam in africa.
Mansa Musa knew where he was going before he actually went there.
Ibin Batuta was interested in gender roles in the Malian empire.
The Mongols never hit agriculture lol.
We need to look at lots of sources other than written sources if we want to learn about the history of africa, because we don't have many written records, as I said earlier.
Timbuktu is in Sub Saharan africa, and it is now a ruin that can be found.
Mansa Musa took about 1000 people with him on his journey to give everyone his gold.
The Burburs were early converts to islam in africa.
Swahili civilization was in the eastern part of africa.
One of the swahili civilizations was called mombasa. Sounds familiar. If you live in kenya it is. By the way, mombasa makes a great cameo in halo, when it is attacked by covenant and finally conquered by the flood. What i'm talking about is actually ancient mombasa so i'm off topic here. Stupid me.
People thought that oral tradition was uncivilised.
Sometimes, Mansa Musa made runaway inflation occur.
Lots of salt was traded across africa.
Salt was and still is very important. A lot of salt was a fortune in the old days.
In fact, in my mother's side of my family (The Japanese side) , there was lots of salt trade.
Mansa Musa gave away his gold during his pilgrimage to mecca.
The Merchants of venice spread the stories that Mansa Musa had lots of gold.
Mansa Musa ruled his cities until, wait for it, the year 1337 AD.
The people in Mansa Musa's territory gave women more equality.
Ibin Batuta wrote an amazing book that we still read today.
Modern swahili language is based on arabic.
Ivory, Animal Hides and Timber was traded around africa.
You can fit India, China and The United States "If you fold in maine" in africa.
The Odyssey was memorized by poets for about 100 years before it was even written down.
In alexandria, there was runaway inflation because of Mansa Musa, which, I think, is the only bad thing that he did.
Mansa Musa's journey was a long one because he had to go all the way from sub saharan africa to mecca, which was in arabia.
You can visit Timbuktu today.
Timbuktu looks like a huge city with huge logs sticking out of the buildings like tiny stubs.
Some sources say that Mansa Musa took over 60000 people with him during his pilgrimage to Mecca.
El Dorado was thought to be a country of gold.
Even african empires had kings, like other empires.
Ancient Africans were not only tribes with their leaders being chiefs and witch doctors, a lot of other Ancient Africans had empires, with huge clay buildings and almighty kings.
Mansa Musa's successor, Mansa Sulamin tried to spread the Islam religion across his empire.
Ibin Batuta went from Mali to Constantinople to India to Russia to Indonesia to....
In fact, Mansa Musa was probably the most travelled person in the world until the steam engine was invented.
Swahili city states were usually, but not always ruled by a king.
If you go to the south of the saharan desert, you should find Sub-Saharan Africa.
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