People came from Ethiopia, Andalusia (southern Spain), Arabia and Turkey. From the late 1200s to the early 1300s, the city became part of the Mali Empire and became central to the empire’s ...

Read the detailed story. The name of the individual was... Mansa Musa was a powerful ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa. During his reign, the empire expanded across present-day Mali, Guinea ...

The Mali Empire was founded in 1226 CE by Sundiata Keita. Sundiata was the second son of the King of the Mandinka people. It was prophesized that Sundiata would become a great ruler. Upon the ...

The Mwene was killed and many Kongo people were enslaved and taken to the Portuguese colony of Brazil. When the Mali Empire began to decline in the 1300s, Sonni leaders seized control of the city ...