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7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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Timbucto - The City of Books and Learning

Timbucto has the perfect climate for producing and keeping books. Books here were written on sheepskins, on tree bark and on paper imported from italy. The dry desert air meant that their pages never warped or cracked. Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts were collected here over the course of centuries. And i'll post some images of these incredible manuscripts on patrion for you to see.

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