7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Songhai Rear Guards of the King - A Memoir
The songhai force was utterly crushed. Its king fled along with the rest of its soldiers. And shudar pasha's men descended on the helpless city of gao. They sacked it, looted its treasures and burned its buildings. The chronicles recall the devastation caused with deep sorrow. It is beyond our powers to fully describe all the misery and losses that were suffered at timbakto when the moroccans took the town.
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