Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16

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Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16


In which John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some impressive architecture, and several empires. John not only covers the West African Malian Empire, which is the one Mansa Musa…

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  1. Did anybody else notice at 4:52 that the empire of Ghana does not even touch the current borders of the country of Ghana? Such is a great example of how language and politics can distort our perception of actual history.

  2. 9:03 Mr Green claims the number of Slaves leaving East Africa wasn't huge. This is grossly incorrect it has since been estimated the East African slave trade to the Islamic world counts for 15 million slaves compared to the transatlantic slave trade of 10 million.
    So unless he is strictly speaking about the 7th or 8th centuries this is quite disingenuous. when all said and done the number was huge