As a result of monopolizing the gold trade and developing its agricultural resources, the Mali Empire prospered. The currency of Mali, like Ghana, was the guilders’ currency. A heavy guilder’s tax was ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

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 ...

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 death ...