Ancient Mali was essentially a trade nation, particularly during the trans-Saharan trade era. A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali Empire by generating wealth. Trading ...

Ancient Mali was essentially a trade nation, particularly during the trans-Saharan trade era. A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali Empire by generating wealth. Trading ...

There was also the city of Jenne-Jeno (ancient Jenne), which archaeologists ... Gold was not its only mainstay. Mali also acquired control over the salt trade. The capital of Niani was situated ...

Mali's antiquities are protected—in principle ... a roughly 2,000-year-old commercial center along the ancient gold-trade route from Ghana and one of the oldest urban centers in sub-Saharan ...

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 ...