7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
The Origins of Gold
Gold has always done something strange to the human brain. We want to wear it on our bodies and decorate our buildings with it. And we've structured entire economies around it. The ancient egyptians called gold the breath of god, while the tecs called it the sweat of the sun. Gold was forged in the centre of stars by the process of nuclear fusion. Stars, just like empires, pass through a cycle. They grow and grow until they reach the size that we call a super giant - thousands of times larger than our own sun.
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