7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
00:00
The Story of the Songhai Empire in Morocco
Morocco attempted to occupy the songhai lands and build an empire of their own in west africa. They looted everything they could from songhai, carrying everything they could transport back across the desert. Moroccans even sent leading scholars to marakesh in chains and kept them there as hostages. The wealth of timbuk to gao and jene was systematically stripped when the spaniard, juda pasha returned to morocco in 15 99,. Nine years after setting out across the desert with his army, his caravan included 30 camel loads of gold as payment for his services. It burst like a bubble from a single puncture. Its complete dissolution came only eight years
Transcript
Play full episode
