7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Two Great Timbuto Chronicles
The great capital city of gao slowly faded and shrunk into obscurity as its population left. Sycamore trees and silk cottons put down roots into the cracks in its walls. The fractured states of west africa would eventually be folded into the sea going empires of european nations, the french, british and portuguese. That is until the cy turned on when these subjugated client states demanded their independence,. And the european empires fell apart in the 19 fifties and sixties.
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