#Mali Empires

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[historynerdj2]

History Memes #60

If you can think of any others, feel free to add

I would add the Zulu empire, the city of Zimbabwe and the Sokoto Caliphate

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I’m pretty sure this is the LAST place I’ve shared these, I always forget to post here 💀

BUT FR THO I want to design each of them with their own personalities and actually have a chance to emote rather than just be zigzags backup. They're the chief advisors to the king and I want them to each be informed, independent, as well as talented. They do follow zigzag around during his travels, but they actually serve a purpose to negotiate trade deals with Zigzag, and they each have their own responsibilities within the kingdom. They won't be just entertainers in the background, they'll kinda have their own arcs and moments throughout my rewrite.

Not like in the original screenplay where they just backed up everything Zigzag says. Even in their solo scenes they're just generally a drag. I really want to take inspiration from EWF for their entire vibe. I've always loved their Afro spiritualism, pride, and just their overall flamboyance like they OWN the show.

They know they’re worth all that gold and they make sure everyone knows it 🌅✨🧡😎🔱

[xixovart]

will forever be upset that the chapters where jason and thalia reunite aren’t written in his pov

[memories-of-ancients]

Mali Cavalry --- The Knights of Africa

from Invicta

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Africa is a continent of more than 50 countries, and home to thousands of languages and cultures. Africans lived in complex societies, from small villages to large bustling cities, that contained universities, mosques, and libraries.

Africa has great civilizations that flourished in Africa included Egypt, Kush, Axum, Mali and Great Zimbabwe.

Africa's history is complex and stretches back through centuries of dynasties. Africa contributed to our knowledge and understanding of ancient writings, languages, agriculture and engineering. Its extensive trade system connected the continent with Asia and India, producing a lively exchange of goods such as grains, metals, and gold.

Black History instruction in K-12 education, 65% of the 401 educators interviewed said that their state does not mandate Black History instruction. Only 12 states require some form of Black history curriculum.

Africans were free before they were enslaved. Enslaved Africans relied on their knowledge and beliefs to survive slavery, and their contributions to U.S. culture, society, and economy are evident in every aspect of American life and enterprise. Agriculture, music, art, and culinary.

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ANCIENT AFRICA & THE KINGDOM OF KUSH

Ancient African Kingdoms: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush

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ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGDOMS & THE KINGDOM OF KUSH

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Ancient Africa: A Captivating Guide to Ancient African Civilizations, Such as the Kingdom of Kush, the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, and the Mali Empire with Its Timbuktu

The Kingdom of Kush: A Captivating Guide to an Ancient African Kingdom in Nubia That Once Ruled Egypt

Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it. From the beginning of time, humans lived and worked in Africa, leaving evidence of their existence in the sands of the Sahara Desert and the valleys of the great rivers such as the Nile and the Niger.

Some of the earliest great civilizations were born there, and they give us an insight into the smaller kingdoms of ancient Africa.

Some of the topics covered in part one of this book include:

The Kingdom of Kush

The Land of Punt

Carthage

The Kingdom of Aksum

The Ghana Empire

The Mali Empire

And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part two of this Book include:

Nubia and the emergence of the Kingdom of Kush

From Alara to the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty

The rulers of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty

Relations between Kush and Egypt continue

Kush between the sixth and third centuries

The Meroitic Dynasty

The last centuries of the Kingdom of Kush

The society of Kush

And much, much more!

Ancient African Kingdoms: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush

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Exploring the History of the Jolof/Wolof Empire: A Fascinating Historical Overview

The Jolof Empire, also known as the Wolof Empire, was a prominent confederacy state that exerted its influence over vast expanses of West Africa, specifically in present-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Mauritania, from the 12th century until 1549. It is fascinating to note that the founder of this empire, Ndiadiane Ndiaye, whose existence is steeped in mythology, was a prince with possible Fulani…

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Mansa Musa was the richest person in history

[therainingkiwi]

i was just watching celebrity jeopardy and one of the clues described medieval timbuktu as "a college town" and i think my entire brain has been rewired

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[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the next book:

This book covers the history of the Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai from an emphasis at both decolonization and an emphasis on a changing, not static African world and from the simple recognition that the written history of this part of the world is overwhelmingly an Islamic one and one written by peoples who had millennia-ancient Arab prejudices against the Zanj (aka Black) peoples of the Bilad al-Sudan. In the writings of the Islamic consensus the Bilad Al-Sudan was a realm of monsters and subhumans without a history, infidels who worshiped fell gods in sinister rites involving cannibalism, human sacrifices, and the pounding of drums in darkling woods. If this sounds like it could have been written by Lovecraft there's a reason for that.

This is not European racism, as the mark of descent is from the status of the father, not the mother, and because it's not rooted in science or pseudoscience, but in the concept of Allah/God the most merciful marking peoples by skin color in a category of superiority for the white people (aka Arabs and let this stand in turn as a commentary on later European white supremacy, a religious Islamic version of it already existed and Arabs and to a lesser degree some Amazigh were 'white' and therefore innately blessed with rationality, control of sexual impulses, and all the other things they said the Black people, the Sudani, did not have).

Now why does all this matter? Because under Ghana, Mali, and Songhai West Africa underwent a transformation from an ancient region of urbanized areas led by sacred kings and religions that worshiped many gods to the monotheistic Jihad-societies of Ghana and Songhai, with Mali in between and marking the point where the Islamic world went from the kind of syrupy condescension used for modern African states to actually taking African Muslims seriously.

Equally crucially this shaped the medieval Sahelian Ruling class's self-perception. It downplayed Blackness and demonized it in line with the tradition of Islamic history, it created the same artificial bullshit whereby European nobilities were somehow descended from Trojans or Roman Emperors with Yemeni and the Al-Qays tribes of Arabs. It also shaped the specific dynamic of West African Islam, that of Ghana (and the founder of the Songhai Empire, Sunni Ali), a heavily syncretic version but also that of Mali and Songhai at their height cosmopolitan and with a global ambition that shaped the Islamic world at its own heights.

In short, too, the African states that arose were not ancient traditional concepts, they were new creations charged with the self-serving mission of Jihad at the expense of pagans, and the fallen old empires were neatly redefined as pagan to suit their new successors, to boot. Their impact on the ethnogenesis and self-perception of Sahelian West Africa was very real and this book notes that the Griot traditions match up fairly closely with the Islamic written tradition and as such the dismissal of oral histories is, in actual fact, bullshit.

This book also notes that both the novelty and the scale of expansion created its own problems and its own weaknesses, and that the endemic inability of Islamic states to solve the succession problem in a way to simultaneously satisfy political and religious elites created major weaknesses and civil wars, with the endemic civil warfare prior to the Battle of Tondibi contributing at least as much to the final fall of the Songhai Empire as Tondibi itself did.

9/10.

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Heinrich Barth, “Timbuktu” (1858)

[359thautisticmetallegion]

So apparently not only can every Abrahamic faith form Rome now… it also works with syncretism.

Somehow I, playing as Bidaic Mali, formed Rome because I had Jewish Syncretism.

Of course, I moved my capital back to Niani ASAP.

[darrylcalmandstrong09]

New Vocal Article. Africa’s Most Flamboyant Emperor: “King of Kings” Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire

“You’ve heard about the extraordinary wealth of Bill Gates, J.P. Morgan, and the sultan of Brunei, but have you heard of Mansa Musa, one of the richest men who ever lived?” - Cynthia Crossen

To find out more about the richest man who ever lived, Emperor Mansa Musa from medieval West Africa, click here: https://rb.gy/ueof7