Songhai Empire: The Fall of Africas Greatest Empire

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As the world progressed through medieval times, great empires rose and fell across Europe and Africa. However, in the 15th century, trans-oceanic voyages were allowing imperialism to reach distant shores. This new form of control became rampant, and untamed capitalism put the slave trade at its core.
During this time in West Africa, a mighty empire was reaching its zenith. The Songhai Empire built on the power of the trans-Saharan trade routes like its predecessors, the Ghana and Mali Empires. In fact, the Songhai Empire became the greatest kingdom West Africa had ever seen.

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[nenenindonu]

Most influential Kingdom of Sub-Saharan Africa together with the Aksumite empire and the Songhai preceding Mali empire

[execs]

You forgot to mentioned that the majority of the Moroccan expeditionary force did not make it back to Morocco … a lot of them succumbed to Malaria, lack of nutrition and other diseases.

[doctorblack]

The largest empire ever from Africa is the Kanem Borno empire. It's so great that it existed over 200 years. Kanem Borno was so big that it took most vassal states a lot of years to know that MAI DUnamabDibalemi the second had died, as all vassals were still paying tributes.

[tunez]

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[abdullrahman]

a small error at 4:15, instead of Massai ( an east african tribe far far away) he repelled the Mossi tribe ( today the indigenous people of Burkina Faso).

[Truthorfib]

Now people should talk about this and make a movie about this instead of the Cleopatra one

[idalahow]

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[Kimber]

Your use of ce instead of ad has caused me to stop watching

[duragjulie]

Do y’all think that it’s coincidental that their name sounds Asian👀

[ibrahimsuleiman]

Brono empire is larger than Mali empire.

[fortunatomartino]

Cancel the Songhai Empire
They had slavery

The slave trade was important to the Songhai Empire. They used slaves to transport goods across the Sahara Desert to Morocco and the Middle East. They were also sold to Europeans to work in Europe and the Americas. Slaves were typically captives of war taken during raids of nearby regions.

[LoloLesaoana]

Me and Dayvon Morena Bennett come from same clan👹🤣🤣🤣😈

[GuardianoftheGoldenStool]

‘Bakr’ isn’t “Baker” and ‘Mossi’ isn’t “Maasai.” Come on this is a highly respected channel. Learn the correct pronunciation.

[noreaction]

Ancient Egyptian empire clenching their fist

[csx]

Africa's greatest empire? How about the empire of morocco that conquered the songhai and caused its fall, and once was ruling from southern Spain to modern mali

[omarbiji]

The greatest empire of africa is morocco with the almohade empire and almoravide empire and saadi empire and the cherifian empire.

[CodyCole]

Sunni and The Songhai were Hebrew descendants. That’s why they don’t get much respect.

[moderatecanuck]

How did you literally skipped the founder of the Empire, Sundieta Keita???

[dedunscrown-jscl]

Morocco with the support of europeans destroyed songhai then chased them into the slave coasts of south west africa. Where the south west africans captured us and brought us to the slave castles. Then now u me we r here in the Americas

Dont forget how the songhai people trusted the south west africans but they led us to slave castles.