7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Mali - A History of the Maley Empire
Mali had always been a single ethnicity project. While it ruled over a large variety of regions and tribes, its king and social alite were all drawn from a people known as the manda. And this meant at the first sign of trouble, these other groups would seek to throw off the yoke of manda rule. Suleiman, the uncle who had killed mansamusa's son, soon died himself and passed the throne to his son. He was then overthrown by another, who was overthrown byanother. During this crisis, the average king ruled for barely more than a few years,. The authority of the empire collapsed. Its client states broke free in droves.
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