The Empire of Mali (In Our Time)
1235 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empire of Mali which flourished from 1200 to 1600 and was famous in the wider world for the wealth of rulers such as Mansa Musa. Mali was the largest empire in west Africa and for almost 400 years controlled the flow of gold from mines in the south up to the Mediterranean coast and across to the Middle East. These gold min
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Around 1235
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- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)