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The years between 1100 and 1600 were known as the "golden age" of trade, when West African gold was in high demand. [1] This led to an increase in the need and use for trade routes. [1] From 1300 the Trans-Saharan trade routes were used for trade, travel, and scholarship. [1]
Mansa Musa [a] (reigned c. 1312 – c. 1337 [b]) was the ninth [5] Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige, although he features less in Mandinka oral traditions than his predecessors.
The 14th century lasted from 1 January 1301 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCCI) to 31 December 1400 (MCD). It is estimated that the century witnessed the death of more than 45 million lives from political and natural disasters in both Europe and the Mongol Empire. [1] [2] West Africa experienced economic growth and prosperity.
Gold dust was used all over the empire, but was not valued equally in all regions. By the beginning of the 14th century, Mali was the source of almost half the Old World's gold exported from mines in Bambuk, Boure and Galam. [46] Gold mines in Boure, which is located in present-day Guinea, were discovered sometime near the end of the 12th ...
The gold rush saw massive development of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, and the area today is the prime metropolitan area of South Africa. One consequence of the gold rush was the construction of the first railway lines in this part of Africa.
When Ibn Battuta visited the Sultanate in the 14th century, he identified the Sultan as being of Barbara origin, [18] an ancient term used to describe the ancestors of the Somali people. According to Ross E. Dunn, neither Mogadishu nor any other city on the coast could be considered alien enclaves of Arabs or Persians, but were in-fact African ...
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia , Greece , New Zealand , Brazil , Chile , South Africa , the United States , and Canada while smaller ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".