Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0509 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mali and Songhai: Gold, Salt, Islam
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The idea
Islam flourished with the caravan gold trade. Sundiata Keita founded Mali in the thirteenth century on the Bure goldfields; Timbuktu and Djenné taught Islam; after Mansa Musa the empire weakened. Songhai, under Sunni Ali and Askia the Great, took its place.
In practice
Askia using Islam to rule; Timbuktu's mosques drawing scholars.
Where people slip
Moroccan Saadi forces ended Songhai in the sixteenth century.
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