7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Splintering of the African Empire
The defeat at the battle of tondibi sent splinters running right across the empire. Soon where a single state had existed, now countless small kingdoms reasserted their freedoms and separate borders. Predatory europeans set up trading postso along the african coast, profiting from the chaos. And the full horror of the transatlantic slave trade began.
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