7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Death of Askia Mohammed
Within 20 years of askia mohammed's death, as many as 250 thousand africans had already been kidnapped and transported to the new world. By the time the slave trade was abolished in the nineteenth century, the number would exceed 12 million. Of these, nearly two million died on the voyage. The period of blood letting did come to an end in the empire of sanghai with the reign of a man named aski daud.
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