The Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Every episode i look at a civilization of the past that rose to glory and then collapsed into the ashes of history. Bart soon left the ruins of gao to the silk cottons and sycamore trees and continued on his journey home. But the sight of the ruined city seems to have stuck with him. And wherever he went, he would ask the same questions: how had the empire of songhai grown to such size in the harsh desert landscape of the southern s ara? How had its people held such a society together and built such grand constructions? And why, after rising to such great heights, had they left it all here to crumble into the dust and shifting dunes

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