Musa I of Mali: The Real Life King Midas

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Empire of Mali: www.britannica...
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@Biographics 4 года назад

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@luxembourgishempire2826 4 года назад

How did you comment so quickly? Lol

@McVet3 4 года назад

Biographics can you please make a video on General Winfield Scott aka Old Fuss and Feathers? He has to have an interesting story.

@ricksturgis6403 4 года назад

Luxembourgish Empire wat mess du dann hei??

@lingthegreat 4 года назад

I was watching the film “The Last Samurai” and I was interested in a possible (perhaps prehistory) physical link between the Zen and Folk philosophies, linguistics, and warrior traditions of the native-american tribes and ancient Japan. Perhaps they have some common ancestry that affected their world view before Western expansion.

@safenegro1798 4 года назад

That was quick...😯

@witchsistah 4 года назад

When Musa wrote a check, the bank bounced.

@theworldoverheavan560 4 года назад

Lol

@hnnhknu 4 года назад

witchsistah LMAO

@Evzone1821 4 года назад

LITERALLY.

@d3pl0y3r23 4 года назад

😂😂

@YAHhears 4 года назад

😂 😆

@josephhalbohn5962 4 года назад

Imagine being so rich that your vacation causes hyperinflation and a global recession

@weedypop9032 4 года назад

@Gordon Gartrell because he clearly had brain

@mihai000000 4 года назад

didn't knew that cairo was global

@noblenaveragemanointernet2582 4 года назад

Not vacation, but pilgrimage.

@hanniffydinn6019 4 года назад

Mecca isn’t a vacation. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

@josephhalbohn5962 4 года назад

Damn y’all it was hyperbole

@janedoeski9196 4 года назад

Africa has so much amazing history its a shame you don't hear about it much..

@lovelife8968 3 года назад

...and so much of it erased.

@cosuinofdeath 3 года назад

@@lovelife8968 no it wasn’t fool

@lolom8772 3 года назад

Lord Solar a lot of it was, the destruction of colonialism destroyed a lot of history

@JohnGalt916 3 года назад

@@cosuinofdeath yes. It was. What happed to the niger empire? You never heard of it? Exactly.

@dblake5193 3 года назад

You enslaved yourselves in civil war

@chocjane08 4 года назад

This was really interesting, more videos about African historical figures would be very welcome.

@WaltuhGaming1 4 года назад

Like shaka zulu

@truforcesavage6553 4 года назад

I agree. Not much is spoken about Africa's ancient Empires

@gregoryjones9546 4 года назад

True. I Would Like To See A Biography Of Haile Selassie I,The Emperor Of Ethiopia. And Other Ancient,Medieval And Early Modern African Rulers!!!

@raudeloruna2600 4 года назад

@@vg1024 "conducive to diversity"??? lmao...pathetic that your retroactively applying your modern sensitivities to ancient history. if they existed at all, ancient african emperors were likely purists and would have exterminated or enslaved any non black outsiders

@CharlesfranklinC 4 года назад

@Salvatore Lanzieri Ethiopia have a Written history it's Written in Geez & some in the Fidel

@rantanen1 4 года назад

When you're talking about all these geographical locations (i.e where significant cities were or which areas were conquered), it'd be nice to see a representation of said locations on a map

@cd5433 3 года назад

He’s to conceited for that .

@KatGlos 3 года назад

I agree... Probably the makers of this video are geography nerds like me who have the world map in their mind's eye down to every detail, but most people don't and knowing where places are is so important in understanding historical events.

@Zanzamor 3 года назад

Google it

@tarawalker7193 4 года назад

I first heard of Mansa Musa in my senior year of high school in the late 90s. I love reminding people of these great civilizations of West Africa and that all things great did NOT start in Europe, as our American history would have us believe.

@jabronis33 2 года назад

I was taught civilization started in the middle east and Mesopotamia. I don't know anyone who was told civilization started in Europe

@ronnyquatre6305 2 года назад

Everything started in Africa.... mathematics , science and astrology that we know today , it's thanks to these black people from Africa! Europeans came to Africa without any knowledge, they learned from the Africans and when they returned to Europe, they portrayed Africans as animals ... many European scientist( so called scientist), went to Africa for a while and when they returned to Europe , suddenly they are claiming to be intelligent 😁.... Phytagoras, Plato , Einstein, Tesla , Darwin , Archimedes, Newton and many more .... all of them have either went to Africa( iraq, egypt etc...) to learn what they know! This proves that they didn't discover or invented anything, they just copied what the Africans knew and changed the name of these things( that's the only thing they did,name changing) ..... If we really want to know REAL SCIENCE AND REAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE, we should learn about ancient Africans way of life and way of seeing things!

@kyriskustoms2172 2 года назад

@@jabronis33 If there’s a Middle East, where is the Middle West, or Middle North? Civilization started in Northern Africa off the Nile.

@Truestoned0 2 года назад

alot did tho

@ForgottenRebel77 2 года назад

weird, i was taught in every history class that civilization began in Mesopotamia. And im American. So maybe your teachers were just bad.

@razatiger22 4 года назад

Imagine how amazing West Africa would be today if the Mali empire had strong leadership. Could have been one of the world powers.

@mattkeita3448 3 года назад

The fall of the Mali empire is the cause of all west African issues. If we have a leadership since medieval times we never will suffer from the transatlantic slave trade and the whole world will be a better place. No racism issue because black people will live in the richest empire ever existed and the wealth gap definitely will be less.

@Morphman19 2 года назад

@@mattkeita3448 Transatlantic slave trade had the majority of slaves provided by Africans. African colonisation didn’t start until the 1880s which by then slavery was outlawed by the major powers on the Atlantic. The only thing you can claim is the couple of small European trading enclaves around the coasts or the small expansion into Algeria by the French. Slavery wasn’t the catalyst for colonialism rather the resources.

@MF-Rell 2 года назад

@@Morphman19 Lies

@ganevo4788 Год назад

@@Morphman19 Europe make African slave a cheap worker, but remember that Egypt make African slave a Mamluk that defeate Mongol and even make their own dynasty before Ottoman take over

@sonofsonghai1843 4 года назад

Mansa Abubakar must have made it to the other side and one archaeological evidence is the Olmec Statues unearthed in South America of medieval Malian soldiers complete with their traditional helmets. Even Columbus himself wrote about Africans he heard about from the natives in his own journal. Please check it out if you can Simon. There may be a story there. Great job by the way.

@Reactiverse1980 Год назад

Thank you for this comment!😊

@jevinday 4 года назад

I feel like Simon probably isn't wearing pants. I mean i wouldn't be.

@amistry605 4 года назад

Basketball shorts lol

@damariowilson2350 4 года назад

Not possible... he's British.

@amistry605 4 года назад

@A Sad Soggy Waffle 🤣🤣🤣

@abdul-rafeeqabubakar5713 4 года назад

An African for once!!!! Thanks, more please! Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Thomas Sankara, The Ethiopian Empire and many more.

@Trumblebee 4 года назад

Abdul-Rafeeq Abubakar yess!!!! And Patrice lumumba

@abdul-rafeeqabubakar5713 4 года назад

@Sashabizz4 yeah that's true! However this isnt about African "monster" leaders, made famous as Europe boogie men. More stories about true African heroes like Sankara, Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Leopold Sedar Senghor etc.

@abdul-rafeeqabubakar5713 4 года назад

@Sashabizz4 you inferred that, I never said he doesnt cover monster European leaders. I'm saying this is the first positive story from the rich history of Africa he has spoken about, Africa isnt just horrible leaders, war and bad stories. We also have a rich beautiful history, this is just one of many.

@lealandrayford 4 года назад

Imagine walking in a corner store and say "aye you got change for a million"💰💰💰😂🤣🤣

@raibyo 3 года назад

It won't be that uncommon in Iran since their currency has the lowest value in the world.

@gostavoadolfos2023 4 года назад

As a Moroccan, we still amazed that Malians sent us slaves and gold in exchange of salt, even though the coast of Senegal was close! Timbuktu means in Amazigh/berber the place of storage.

@zarantikka106 4 года назад

Because you die without it in the sahel

@gostavoadolfos2023 4 года назад

@@zarantikka106 my point is that they could take it from the coast instead of waiting for Moroccan merchants to bring salt and exchange it with its weight in gold.. the stories of limitless gold reserves propagated by those merchants is what motivated the Moroccan compaign to invade the entire region centuries later.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@@gostavoadolfos2023 salt is harvested from the ground not the ocean.

@zarantikka106 4 года назад

@@gostavoadolfos2023 that's was very understanable from what you wrote. Some simple answers could be that the resources from the coast properly weren't sufficient. Technology, africans have been mining since "pre historic" times, so it may have been a preference/familiarity to mining, that could have been the reason. At some points the emperors also owned some of the salt mines in Northern West Africa. So the trade could have been for diplomatic reasons. Since the relationship between the manding and berbers have been very volitile throughout history. Like ancient raid of manding settlements, and the almohavids and marrocan attacks on Ghana and Songhai.

@pipi_delina 4 года назад

Maybe they didnt know how to make salt then..

@solitaryman7485 4 года назад

Next week, in our continuing series of "The Richest Ever to Live," Scrooge McDuck, the richest duck to ever live.

@barrythetraveller102 2 года назад

HAHAHA

@jackhudson41 4 года назад

“A mid 90’s west coast rapper” *shows a 2000’s Atlanta rapper

@hakimflowers8251 4 года назад

Jack Hudsom and a 90s-00s-10s-20s- ♾s rapper from NY 😂😂😂😂😂

@6aliph77 4 года назад

He doesn't know the difference give him a break

@dcarbs2979 4 года назад

They all look and sound the same so I wouldn't worry about. Apart from Eminem and Joseph Sadler maybe

@shadowman7307 4 года назад

All the same.

@shanceeaton9508 4 года назад

ShadowMan y’all all look the same , weak recessive genes got like 3 faces and the same dry ass style.

@stevenpdxedu 4 года назад

Thank you Simon, I feel much richer now having watched this episode.

@jigsaw10181 4 года назад

Jakob Fugger: I’m the richest man who ever lived. Musa I of Mali: *hold my gold*

@paulmcadam6825 4 года назад

Actually 2 ships returned from a smaller initial fleet with tales of meat eating fish, warrior women and men using poisonous blow pipes. This prompted the King to depart with a bigger, and better equipped fleet....Latest research. Great video though!

@tervenjames8305 4 года назад

You are absolutely right there was evidence that contact was met with the Americas.

@BilalMarcus 3 года назад

where can you find this information?

@mikerodrigues2906 4 года назад

When I say "birth of an empire" it never sounds as good as when this guy says it .

@sammylong3704 4 года назад

Actually there is archaeological evidence that a least some of those Mali sailors reached the new world. Columbus found gold tipped arrow and spear heads in the Caribbean when he first arrived. He also found small tribes of natives who looked and dressed identical to west Africans.

@aprillechalisse 2 года назад

Exactly, and now that we have DNA test, more blacks and Natives here in America are discovering that not only are we related to one another but we have Egyptian and West African roots. Arawak people are proof that Malians were here.

@jennevabrereton7010 2 года назад

That is why we in the Caribbean said lie when he said he discoverd certain island he met people here . Someone cannot discover a place and there are people livin on it that is crazy

@TheHikeChoseMe 2 года назад

so your saying HE was the OG colonizers huh...ok

@fresherro Год назад

For example the Moors

@Goddess_Infinity 6 месяцев назад

@@aprillechalisseWhen learning about history pay attention to time line . By the time Musa appeared the Arabs and geek had already conquered Egypt 1000s of years prior .

@monelwookie1 4 года назад

FINALLY! I've been waiting and waiting for you to bio-graph Mansa Musa, the richest man that ever lived!

@Tunishia14 4 года назад

This is what should be taught in schools, especially during black history month!

@samanthanel4109 4 года назад

You have black history month? Interesting. Where are you from If I may ask?

@Tunishia14 4 года назад

@@samanthanel4109 I'm American, black history month is in February because its Frederick Douglass's birth month. And, you're from?

@samanthanel4109 4 года назад

Thank you. I'm embarrassed I don't know who he is, but I'm definitely going to go Google him. Besides if his birthday is in February like mine his probably awesome lol. I'm kidding. I'm from South Africa

@Tunishia14 4 года назад

@@samanthanel4109 No, Frederick Douglass was a different person, not featured in this film. He was a runaway slave from the 1800s in America. Google Frederick Douglass as well. He helped encourage the then President Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves. Anywho, Black History month was choosen in February because of Frederick Douglass.

@Tunishia14 4 года назад

I want to visit Africa one day, South Africa being one of my stops.

@markross2124 3 года назад

I have heard from some literary sources that Musa sent his brother on a naval exploratory expedition to the west, the Atlantic ocean, which never returned except for one ship reporting the discovery of 'new lands.' Some believe that was the origin of the Olmecs who influenced civilizations there.

@klipfile4006 2 года назад

This is correct. I am a descendant of the Olmec. My dna results a direct link

@thapelolehasa4242 3 года назад

Very enlightening indeed. Cheik Anta Diop covered the topic of indigenous Egyptians before the conquest by Arabs / Middle Easterners. Can we hear more about the indigenous, some of whom live in Central and Southern Egypt, but are seemingly systematically marginalised and their archeological treasure taken by the conquerors?

@Robloxcingirl99 4 года назад

Your a legend for this man

@w4974 4 года назад

Abu Bakr II: Yo let's take some slaves and sail across the Atlantic Europe: Now THIS GUY has got the right idea

@littlewoodimp 4 года назад

Except we did it the other way around! 😁

@w4974 4 года назад

@ThirdeyeStrike Who's we?

@diawaraoussey9091 4 года назад

Lies

@w4974 4 года назад

@@diawaraoussey9091 Diawat????

@knightwing5169 4 года назад

Except European explorers managed to do it without dying on the way over.

@aebmermaid92 4 года назад

Great video - for the sake of accuracy I feel obligated to point out that the two rappers pictured are from the East and Southeast coasts of the US 😄 and those photos are from the 2000s! Anyways, I love the channel!

@zipblockarchives900 4 года назад

Ryan Coogler who Directed Black Panther wants to do a movie about him. Hopefully it happens soon.

@fighterck6241 4 года назад

@DjRawd0g 2004 Alexander: am I a joke to you?

@blknitenca 3 года назад

What an amazing history lesson! More African civilizations PLEASE!!

@AR-ii3ly 4 года назад

Great content as always. However, you should do a video on Fela Kuti the Afrobeat legend. There is a lot of interesting content there.

@andrewswift2727 4 года назад

You DO know there can only be ONE "richest person who ever lived," right? Just checking. Thanks for your videos, I enjoy your team's work.

@12jswilson 4 года назад

@General Grievous ehhh. There's a lot of issues with calling Jakob Fugger the richest man ever. The was done by estimating the value of his entire business, which in reality he only owned a decent amount of it with his brothers and children owning the rest of it. The article claiming so did it for clickbait to highlight an extremely influential, but largely anonymous person in the early modern period of Europe.

@hp5864 4 года назад

This is really a high quality historical channel. They cover all sorts of personalities. I love it! Unbiased and interesting.

@TommyGunz327 Год назад

This is extremely low quality considering the many blatant lies included in this documentary. Mansa Musa was NOT a black sub Saharan African. We have drawings of him (that Afrocentrists have attempted to DARKEN and have been caught doing so). He was very light skinned and was “Persian” or Arabic.

@I.KUchiha 4 года назад

Massive empire. Greatest nation. Richest. Weird how they usually hate teaching us about people like these in schools and stuff lol I wonder why

@cheifwhat 3 года назад

I further read that his spending in Cairo was on stalls and goods that were in many cases owned by a rich Florentine family called the Medici, who used that gold to finance what we call 'the renaissance'.

@ashharkausar413 4 года назад

When your power level is too high for the mortal realm

@treybanks327 4 года назад

Mansa Kankan Musa - The Richest African Warrior Musa I was the tenth Mansa (sultan or king) of Mali. His reign was between 1312 and 1337 AD. He was an extremely powerful leader and under his leadership Mali was able to conquer 24 cities. He had a great deal of nick names and titles, including the ‘Lion of Mali’ and ‘Conqueror of Ghanata’. One of his nicknames, ‘Lord of the Mines of Wangara’, was due to the fact he was in control of all the gold mines there. This contributed to the fact he was exceptionally rich - his contemporaries described him as “inconceivably wealthy”. Both Time and the BBC have commented on his wealth from a modern view point, with the latter declaring him THE RICHEST MAN OF ALL TIME This European is babbling false notions

@joeottsoulbikes415 4 года назад

This was super interesting! I had never heard of thus king or kingdom. I had heard of Timbuktu and that at one time it was a wealthy city but not this story behind it all. Thank you for sharing it with us Simone!

@kgomotsosekonya9435 4 года назад

Thanks Simon ! I love hearing stories like this. Its so depressing that as an African the only history I was ever taught was about Europe and what happened to my country after Europeans arrived 😒

@desciplesofthomassankara3021 4 года назад

Come on bro if you went to primary school in the early 2000s you'll know that contents about the Khoi and san tribes along with other bantu tribes before colonial times was added onto CAPS. So don't cap gaz'lam

@kgomotsosekonya9435 4 года назад

@@desciplesofthomassankara3021 Not at the schools I went to.

@drmattconrad77 4 года назад

It makes me sad that I had never heard of any of this before. Thanks for the video.

@vibetribe4093 4 года назад

Thanks for recognizing the value of Africa and Africans.

@beccacolinwhitman1765 4 года назад

“Solid gold dumbasses” had me cackling! 😂 love your videos 🧡 I’m a huge history enthusiast and learn so much from your videos. You always keep me laughing. Keep up the good work! 😊

@maxcinerobinson505 Год назад

I would rather come from solid gold dumdasses than taken out of the bastille an put on a ship

@maxcinerobinson505 Год назад

I wasn't finished I'm glad I didn't come from whores an theives but from solid gold dumbasses

@_Abjuranax_ 4 года назад

I'm a Billionaire. Musa: I have a caravan of them.

@rafaelbrgnr 4 года назад

lol

@hellion1770 4 года назад

Musa yes i was broke once too.

@sweetwagon8230 4 года назад

That is so amazing. Something the people of africa can be proud of. I am so happy to hear of such an interesting story.

@ericmaher4756 4 года назад

I think all your videos could start with this statement: “the story of ________ technically stats with his birth” :D Captivating as always, thanks for another video.

@sangyinmedia 4 года назад

please do a story of Shaka Zulu.. Am eargely waiting for how you would do it

@shadowman7307 4 года назад

"Imagine if Auric Goldfinger somehow mated with Scrooge McDuck.." Me: "Ohh there's gotta be some r34 of that somewhere."

@Som3D 4 года назад

Mansa musa: goes on vacation entire world: "AW SHI HERE WE GO AGAIN"

@ngozasidziya8941 4 года назад

great video Simon, could you do one about Shaka Zulu?

@ryanmanyarara6502 2 года назад

Im here because of ERB😂😹🤚

@Ellen_sanyang 4 года назад

I love this version thanks for making it. Tho it's a little different from what our grandparents and Griot's tell us.. love from Gambia

@benangel6831 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing this... his tale should be in more history books the world over.

@mauricefalls1437 4 года назад

Thanks so very much for the response!! I had known a few facts, not in great detail though. You and your team are simply the best!!👉🏾💯

@sjappiyah4071 4 года назад

I appreciate that this Video touches on more than solely his riches , but also his strategy to bring knowledge, arts and culture back home. That’s the true vision of a King over there 💯

@ufiis195 4 года назад

Pls make a video about Manfred von Richthofen (the red baron)

@FormerGovernmentHuman 4 года назад

Something interesting to think of, gold typically doesn’t just disappear. You may have witnessed gold that once adorned these camels at some point.

@thomiJohnson 4 года назад

Simon thank you so much for doing this one! Guys he reads the comments! I watch all of your channels yes even Business Blaze!

@morrisphillips2526 2 года назад

Legend says he gave away wealth, western Europeans probably couldn't relate to or understand.

@OGJessie 2 года назад

As a modern day Ghanaian(Gold Coast)with Ancestral ties to Ancient Ghana,(Mali) it saddens me how much the European powers destroyed Africa.

@jabronis33 2 года назад

Once China is fully in Africa, you'll beg for the Europeans to come back

@deshawnmoore1731 2 года назад

@@jabronis33 Let’s see, Europeans constructed Genocides while China has killed NO ONE

@sven5935 Год назад

Look into history Africans have been fakking themselfs over for sveral centuries and it’s still going on. Most African countries cant even establish a working sociaty till this day. The continent of Africa have all the natrual resources needed to be one of the richest continent on the planet. With a hundred years to change their situation. But it’s infested with waring tribes, rebels, corruption and criminals. Look at your leaders instead of what europeans did a hundred years ago and prior. Instead of building the ecconomy creating Jobs they take a bribe from Asia, Europe or north/south America stuffing their own pockets in exchange for contracts on extracting minerals instead of helping their people. Either way you are very foolish or ignorant to make a statement like that.

@jpage6171 Год назад

There's stone figures in south America that looks like Africans.

@profonicstudios 4 года назад

Amazing video! I can’t wait to see the movie! Apparently before the 2020 madness it was in production! Hopefully it still gets to see the light of day 🙏🏾.

@NEO_RedPill_2024 4 года назад

Congrats on cracking One Million Subscribers. Well deserved.

@pinnacleimages3754 4 года назад

Finally someone talks about him.

@baneshamiller1734 4 года назад

Its refreshing to learn about other African cultures outside of Egypt.

@livelyisland2377 4 года назад

Sundiata stems from Sogolon Diatta, meaning Sogolon's Lion as according to the griots the first time he stood up was to protect his mother, Sogolon Conde(also why he's known as the Lion King). Keita means taking back his inheritance by going back to seize back his throne and finally, griots were and still are more than just singers; they're historians and the keeper of our past. Not all history is written ; for example the first human rights charter wasn't the Magna Carta , at the same time we had the Kurukan Fuga Charter at the founding of the Mande empire, also the result of Soundiata's and other clan leaders work (equal rights for all citizen including women and slaves, social peace, right to education, women's rights, food security, regulating relations between socials groups, self expression and more..). On a fun side note, Mali also means hippopotamus.

@philipcobbinah605 2 года назад

Wow, reading your comment about "Sogolon Diatta" made me realise how similar the word for lion is to ours here in ghana, Akans call lion Djatta as you call is Diatta, wow , wow

@Z1BABOUINOS 4 года назад

"The Richest Man Who Ever Lived" and all he left behind is a mud-brick mosque, 4-5 stories tall and memories of hyperinflation. Great....

@rashardcarry2530 4 года назад

What else was he suppose to leave behind

@Z1BABOUINOS 4 года назад

@@rashardcarry2530 Are you kidding me? Wiki these 3 for now and what they left behind: James Smithson Solomon R. Guggenheim Andrew Carnegie and so many others, with way, *way* less money!

@Sara3346 3 года назад

@@Z1BABOUINOS To be fair wasn't a lot of it destroyed long after his death?

@RickySTT 4 года назад

I learned about this guy at university, but I didn’t get this kind of detail, or the cultural and religious context. My only question is why wasn’t I taught about him in grade school?

@darter9000 4 года назад

“Prince Ali~~ fabulous he~~~ Ali-a Baba!”

@yordalyn 4 года назад

Thank you for what you do. Can you please also do kings tewodros, Minilik and queen Makeda of Ethiopia?

@ebonibrandon 4 года назад

His 'generosity' given his short stay may have been a very deliberate and well calculated move to show the Sultan who was really boss by completely wrecking their economy, upsetting the balance of wealth then moving on. That's a boss move if you ask me.

@Sam-im5tc 4 года назад

Pretty much every great king from that time period How did he become king: *Well he was never meant to be king*

@arthursims Год назад

Thanks for this. It was a huge help with my paper on Mansa Musa.

@le_big_mac7713 3 года назад

Wow amazing to know that Mali was once the wealthiest on earth , If the dude had have spent the gold on ship builders then the world that we know would be a different place. Keep em coming @SimonWhistler

@TheKing60210 4 года назад

Hey thanks for this. I didnt even know Africa had so much History

@johannesklohse8115 4 года назад

Every continent has almost the same amount of rich history and culture. The question is, are its stories told?

@TheKing60210 4 года назад

@@johannesklohse8115 No, but my question is why is Africa so Underdeveloped. Why are some of our leaders so Corrupt

@johannesklohse8115 4 года назад

@@TheKing60210 These are two questions and a complicated topic. Poor partly because of colonialism but not only. The corruption is another topic and not only a problem in Africa. But it's getting better in several African countries. What I heard from Ghana or Kenya for example is that they doing pretty well for subsaharan standards. Africa is catching up and has the potential to be the future.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@@TheKing60210 you are a liar. Why would you say "Our"? A black american would't say "our" when talking about another continents leaders. You re exposed for the probably young chubby white guy you are.

@johannesklohse8115 4 года назад

@Botanist 95 That's what I thought! Pretty obvious right? Why is this?

@luisfrau9810 4 года назад

I enjoy Mr. Whistler’s videos but I particularly enjoyed this one.

@tomsullivan5663 4 года назад

You need to do this as a podcast. Half the time I don’t even watch the video I just listen to it anyways

@WyzardArt 4 года назад

Jakob Fugger: I AM THE RICHEST. Musa: Hold these Mosques 🕌

@killacamp 2 года назад

lol look at the closed captions at 15:49

@KatGlos 3 года назад

Such fascinating history... I hope I can visit Mali and Timbuktu one day.

@joshdude2621 4 года назад

this dude was running Wakanda lol

@chasegwop47 4 года назад

Mansa musa has also talked abt his predecessor talking expeditions across the Atlantic and in Columbus’s journal he talks abt the natives mentioning black people who sailed to Hispaniola and gave them this metal they called guanin this metal was traced back to u guess it west Africa they used it on their spears and the metal consisted of sliver gold and copper one ship one it back they had 200 ships

@gregoryjones9546 4 года назад

Mansa Musa,ABSOLUTELY!!! He Was THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD,PERIOD!!!

@sven5935 Год назад

No he wasnt😅

@Idle724 4 года назад

From now on any time someone makes fun of my name i will tell them i am a descendant of Musa I

@bradbutcher3984 4 года назад

Maybe you are in fact.

@sarankouyate5895 3 года назад

PERIOD

@SuperChimcham 4 года назад

Um King Midas actually existed, they found his skull (looked like hot molten gold was poured on his face) in like 1958 in the Middle East somewhere. Guess where it was- in his tomb! His skull is still on display in a museum over there today!

@LeelosAdventure Год назад

History is incredible

@antoniuvintila3754 Год назад

” Recreational conquering” got me good.

@theparadigm8149 4 года назад

An American eating Asian fusion food while watching a British man talk about a North African: that’s a mood! 😄 Edit: Mansa Musa was technically a West African, but he traveled along North Africa during the Hajj.

@demonduckofdoom7300 4 года назад

Ever thought of covering Crassus? He was another candidate for richest man ever.

@constipatedinsincity4424 4 года назад

9:00 Seamless!

@shawnerickstad129 3 года назад

They just discovered a tablet from a army leader saying his army defeated king Midas so I guess he didn’t have as much of that Midas touch as people thought

@JohnDoe-gx7rn 3 года назад

Shawn , defeated ,Never Conquered

@brando36922 4 года назад

Great video blessings to you and yours .

@kassimkhankhan3875 3 года назад

I wish I had a history teacher like you

@psychomarto 4 года назад

"Recreational Conquering"... a casual Detour for Ol'Musa...

@markadams5823 3 года назад

It's crazy the richest man in history and I've never heard of him.

@bigevil1001 3 года назад

There's a reason for that.

@prathikjain8950 3 года назад

the first rap entourage

@davidsimmons4731 4 года назад

He's basically a real life t'challa who is easily the richest man in fiction

@zachtaylor944 4 года назад

You must have never heard of king midas, its impossible to be richer then him.

@davidsimmons4731 4 года назад

@@zachtaylor944 and yet mansa musa was

@davidsimmons4731 4 года назад

@@zachtaylor944 I know exactly who is is and yes it is and mansa musa was full stop

@SimonCleric 4 года назад

The thumbnail made me think I'm about to watch a Civilization let's play.

@jamesnnabeze687 Год назад

This man's oratory skills was unbelievable

@marquisdelafayette1929 4 года назад

3:40 MAGA!! Make Africa Great Again It sounds like Mali and Africa and Europe just switched places, and will probably switch again. It’s crazy how history repeats itself.