7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Origin of Gold in West Africa
From around 200 million years after our planet first formed, gold started raining from the sky. Gold in west africa wasn't mined from a single source, but from countless tiny gold mines panning stations across the land. Until the discovery of the americas in the sixteenth century, this region was the world's top producer of gold.
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