
7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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In 18 58, the german explorer heinrich bart travelled across the wide expanse of the sahara desert. He heard rumor of something that only a handful of europeans had ever seen before. His guides told him of the existence of an enormous, ruined city lost in the african bush. It was said to have once commanded the continent's greatest empire.
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