The Empire of Mali - An Empire of Trade and Faith - Extra History - Part 2

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📜 History of the Empire of Mali: Seeking a meeting with the emperor of the Mali Empire, a man named Ibn Battutah journeyed across the perilous Sahara sands to discover Mali's gold... instead, he found out how Mali blended its Islamic and African cultures.
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@extrahistory 6 лет назад

Ibn Battutah wrote a book called "The Travels," producing the only eyewitness account of the Mali Empire. So today we’re going to follow him, letting his journey teach us about how trade built the realm. Support us on Patreon! We're actually running a poll this weekend (through 4/23) to determine one of our upcoming Extra History series! patreon.com/extracredits

@en4431 6 лет назад

Extra Credits Your channel is the reason I've gone to Nationals at the history b. Thanks.

@boman. 6 лет назад

can you do ajuuraan empire or adal

@deadcat6212 6 лет назад

Extra Credits PLEASE, DO NOT SKIP MANSA MUSA'S STORY!!!!!11

@Neoplasie1900 6 лет назад

@Ξ SAWIRRO Ξ @Tym the Man They take suggestions for upcoming series from their patreon supporters. So, if you really want to see these events covered by Extra History, consider Patreon.

@daepicadam7358 6 лет назад

Condensing huge history sources into one understandable video is really remarkable. I thank you for your efforts and for making the fascinating History of mankind easier to learn.

@Radiodragonofdoom 6 лет назад

I love that rude tourists are a universal constant.

@Leivve 6 лет назад

Ben, there is a third certainty in life.

@Matthew-Anthony 5 лет назад

@@Leivve The three certainties are: death, taxes, and gravity.

@azelfdaboi5265 5 лет назад

@@Matthew-Anthony there's a 4th certainty, there will always rude tourists

@b3rz3rk3r9 5 лет назад

Yep. Death, Taxes, Empires and assholes mocking your country's culture while visiting.

@MrSuperman957 4 года назад

Rude, yes. But not entirely. You see, he didn't have a BIG problem with non-muslims but rather with the muslims who were not practicing right. I mean, they were supposed to be Muslims so he was, as a muslim, obviously shocked. But the thing about his rank and yoghurt or whatever, extremely rude. He was the guest so he should be grateful for whatever he receives according to Islam

@Nuinwing 6 лет назад

So.... he laughed at the emperors face and lived to tell about it...thats one merciful ruler for sure(for the time period).

@TheFiresloth 6 лет назад

Well, he was an important guy. Ambassador are not supposed to be dicks, but if they, are, better not cut their heads before being sure you can defeat the country they came from.

@ajjack2322 6 лет назад

Ibn Battuta was a lone wolf for the most part. Mansa probably would not kill him so as not to look barbaric to the general islamic world.

@tesseract2144 5 лет назад

@@TheFiresloth Yeah, good luck raising a huge army a make them crossing the desert without supply line and with the possibility of neighbors attacking you during the time

@coolbule1238 5 лет назад

@@tesseract2144 but when the army gets cannons and one does not the former only needs 200 men

@jdb9318 5 лет назад

@@TheFiresloth *Laughs in Leonidas*

@swampfox1007 6 лет назад

If I have learned anything from extra credits is it that all people are born with a tag with the initials that they wear on their clothes.

@haroldlolz7964 6 лет назад

lol

@mdaburayhan9101 6 лет назад

Swamp Fox. Actually it's very funny and true

@jacobdunkin1180 6 лет назад

not everybody, just everybody important.

@nathanschmitz2302 6 лет назад

Just think how easy it is to kill a important leader. Just look for thier name tag and shoot them in the head.

@fighterck6241 6 лет назад

Jacob Dunkin ... ahhh, so that's why I was born with a birthmark shaped like my initials on my chest...

@muixc 6 лет назад

"The king of Mali is so rich, he's going on tour to let everyone know. 'Wow. That guy is rich.' Everyone said." -Bill Wurtz

@Animewatcher5953 3 года назад

🤣🤣

@dweeb24 3 дня назад

🤣🤣

@DragoniteSpam 6 лет назад

Can we just appreciate for a minute how brave some of these explorers who crossed the desert must have been? Five hundred miles with just one oasis, sending a scout ahead who might not even make it to arrange for water to be brought out to meet the caravan, oof .-.

@DragoniteSpam 6 лет назад

I know, right?

@imverygerby 6 лет назад

Gstrangeman96 Idk seeing someone get blown up is fucked soilders never really change there are always those ones in the front lines and those who are behind them. I'd say the civilian populace was more accustomed to violence back in the day tho

@Zerpderp0 6 лет назад

DragoniteSpam These merchants are hard core

@Wreckonning 6 лет назад

Remember that he was following a path that had been traveled many times before by merchants and travellers, and the systems were already in place for him to be able to make the journey. Let's not completely forget that for the people in the area, this was a way of life and not some grand adventure.

@hi_mom_im_on_youtube 6 лет назад

Gstrangeman96 Peasants were never expected to fight, medieval armies consisted of mercenearies and feudal lords.

@KendrixTermina 6 лет назад

Mali sounds like a pretty cool place to live actually, at least by medieval standards.

@KendrixTermina 6 лет назад

Hence, "BY MEDIEVAL STANDARDS".

@unknowndane4754 6 лет назад

Honestly I think it depended on your standings, for the lower classes I don't think there was that great a difference, for the middle classes I think Mali had it better because of it its lack of external dangerous enemies that threatened their way of living, for the high class... hard to judge because I think it was like most of the medieval world, maybe better if you were involved in the gold trade. They had tons of gold yes, but for them that was a product only really good for export and not that important to them.

@TheFiresloth 6 лет назад

Well, in the 14th century, it was certainly better to be a malian, mughal or italian subject than, a say, french, english or syrian one.

@MisterOrange1 6 лет назад

Yaldabaoth Honestly, even if you were a slave. A slave became a Mansa (his name was Sakura) years before Mansa Musa

@Skadi609 6 лет назад

Gabriel Sakura? Doesn't it mean "cherry blossom" in Japanese?

@nicholasnelson8641 6 лет назад

Ibn Battutah. Makes Marco Polo look like Dora the explorer.

@faizahtahsin6377 4 года назад

And now he has his own series

@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832 4 года назад

@@faizahtahsin6377 that they canceled...

@wnd9434 4 года назад

What wrong with Dora the Explorer

@faizahtahsin6377 4 года назад

@@wnd9434 shes fake lmao

@JanBork 4 года назад

@@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832 did they?!?!

@srvaudiau 6 лет назад

Ibn Battuta deserves his own series!

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

Seconded!

@adnanilyas6368 6 лет назад

@alsyrriad 6 лет назад

I don't like him honestly. Kind of stuck up if you ask me.

@srvaudiau 6 лет назад

Dylan Sepasyar he was. But Ibn Battuta had one of the most epic road trips ever.

@mxsdrago 6 лет назад

Ibn Battuta’s Bizarre Adventure: Gold Dust Crusader

@Wolf6119 6 лет назад

RIP Sulking Caravan Dude

@KasumiRINA 3 года назад

*F*

@Sebastian-mh7ej 3 года назад

@@KasumiRINA F

@detriadh 3 года назад

@silverking2181 5 месяцев назад

@twiinapocalyp2e2 6 лет назад

the mental image of an islamic scholar expecting veiled women only to find them walking around the palace topless is kinda hilarious

@DaJalster28 6 лет назад

twiinapocalyp2e2 imagine him trying to report the "harlot" just to be told by the guards that she is the Emperor's daughter.

@RayMKlll 5 лет назад

DaJalster28 And that meant she could dress as she pleased? Or am I seeing this wrong?

@theghostofspookwagen4715 5 лет назад

Yup. Going around topless just wasn't an issue with them, for Battutah and his ilk on the other hand he would've fainted at the horror (and arousal).

@hisexcellencypresidentofre4118 5 лет назад

Gosh u guys funny. Lol

@nathanielclaw2841 5 лет назад

@@RayMKlll differences in what each culture finds to be moral and respectable. Same goes for native americans in south america, they dressed even less

@Udontkno7 6 лет назад

I'm so glad there's finally some more mainstream channels that talk about African history. Africa has tons of assumptions that are negative, and I'm glad it's history is shown in a positive light.

@semereabraham6639 6 лет назад

aromantic Yes, thank you, finally some people interested in actual history, not racial supremacy...

@kayzsosa1414 6 лет назад

Semere Abraham word

@asiboe 6 лет назад

shipwrecked, kidnapped, and detained... why does it sound like now he's going to die of something very stupid after surviving all the previous?

@edatercharles5566 6 лет назад

he died of old age in his city Tangiers, now he has a mausoleum in there

@timothymclean 6 лет назад

He lived long enough to publish a book, so...if it wasn't death by falling manuscript, it would be outside the scope of this series.

@Healermain15 6 лет назад

Upon completing his manuscript, he had a heart attack, tripped over his chair, and accidentally pierced his own heart with his writing quill. With his last breath, he managed to send his manuscript to the printers.

@nomkir 6 лет назад

No that's also dramatic. He died a natural death.

@agenthurricane4839 6 лет назад

Upon visiting home, he accidentally forgot how to breathe.

@mestre12 6 лет назад

There are many stories about Masamusa, but, the one i like the most is: He gave so much gold in he travels, that, in some places, gold got major inflation.

@chrispo7610 6 лет назад

gold was basically useless for a short period there. richest person ever

@andrewlentner 6 лет назад

In some areas it was so bad that the city's economy crashed

@nakenmil 6 лет назад

That's why they used cowry shells back home. Much rarer and easier to control the circulation of.

@LuccianoBartolini 6 лет назад

Basically, he was the Muslim equivalent of Salomon.

@BigHenFor 6 лет назад

When supply exceeds demand prices fall, so the price of gold would have deflated if Musamansa flooded the market with his generosity.

@brianngoma9873 6 лет назад

As much as I really want to hear about Mansa Musa, I'm glad that you're stalling that episode to focus on the lesser known parts of an already underappreciated empire. Keep up the good work EC!

@FromNothing 6 лет назад

This was amazing. I honestly didn't expect as much detail or elegance as people never usually offer it when talking about African history but you did it justice. Looking forward to the next episode!

@joelgottfried5849 5 лет назад

Hey i'm also a fan of your channel are you willing to do dome focus of the kush empire

@abthedragon4921 3 года назад

Wow, didn't expect to find you here. Then again I probably should have, given the premise of your channel.

@shockhouser3171 3 года назад

Hey Jabari

@Vitalis94 6 лет назад

As for religious syncretism, most of converting societies took the same path as Mali did. We date Christianization of many European states at the moment their kings did it. But in reality, most of population would remain pagan for few more centuries. First to convert were the rulers and traders. Later on, the capital. Then various towns and cities. Last to convert were the peasants in the villages, and that's why folk traditions come from rural places. The process of conversion to another religion went amongst the same lines as described in this video. To convince people, some of the local, pagan celebrations were disguised as Christian. The origins of the date we celebrate Christmas and Easter are winter and solar solaces, while annual celebrations of polytheistic gods were turned into the celebration of various Catholic Saints. It took many centuries for pagan belives to be entirely purged, and even then, many originally pagan traditions are celebrated to this day.

@redwallzyl 6 лет назад

Thank you.! The amount of ignorance shown by people is awful. They tend to know nothing about the actull processes involved and so project their own biases on it.

@mustipunyaemail 6 лет назад

Christmas is from pagan.

@theghosthero6173 6 лет назад

mpye yeah it's the Scandinavian Yule

@deangelourqhart7614 6 лет назад

And Yule is Babylonian for little child.

@Vitalis94 6 лет назад

To say that Christmas is a direct "descendant" of Yule only would be an understatement - while Yule had influenced the outlook of Christmas in Germanic countries, other Europeans had their own pagan traditions related to winter solace. For example, Romans had Saturnalia, not to mention that the festival of Sol Invictus took place exactly on December 25th. Also, Slavs had their Koleda/Gody, Iranians had Yalda, etc...

@rickard7031 4 года назад

Does this entire episode count as a SIDE TRIP?

@abthedragon4921 4 года назад

Good one

@andreas6334 3 года назад

Loser

@tomuch4u969 3 года назад

@@andreas6334 ur lame 😒

@ryanred1525 2 года назад

@@andreas6334 ur lame😒

@Mar1aHass4n 2 года назад

@@andreas6334 ur lame😒

@sircoloniser5454 Год назад

This is a side trip to the Ibn battuta series

@threaruscamuwundra7417 6 лет назад

Awh man, this is a great episode but Ibn Battutah could have gotten an entire serie based on his travels. Would have been an awesome topic

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 лет назад

He could get maybe some one off episode for the rest of his travels some day.

@atsekaleb7 4 года назад

Well good news for you

@gabemobley3851 4 года назад

Yep he got a full series

@WeaselLikeMan 4 года назад

good news

@kingsumca4370 4 года назад

@@gabemobley3851 where can I find the series?

@duchessnoor 6 лет назад

BUT I WOULD WALK 500 MILES AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE...

@mykomatos5445 6 лет назад

JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED A THOUSAND MILES TO GO OFF 'BOUT YOUR MORES

@weldonwin 6 лет назад

Dada Da Da, Dada Da Da, Dadala Dadala Dadala Dadala dada...

@Achillez098 6 лет назад

DA DA DA DA! DA DA DA DA! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!

@sarabe2130 6 лет назад

O sheet whaddup it GUNTHRUM *bew bew bew beeeww*

@myohmy9000 6 лет назад

Oh look, it's *Æthelstan*

@GeneralLuigiTBC 6 лет назад

Ibn Battutah's reaction to the syncretic form of Islam practiced in the Mali Empire touches on a conundrum in religion that I've seen come up time and again as far as spreading Abrahamic religions is concerned: If the religion you seek to spread forbids something that is an integral part of the culture you seek to spread it to, how do you approach spreading your religion? Do you insist that the locals abandon the parts of their culture that your religion forbids, or do you leave those parts of their culture alone? On the one hand, trying to put an end to practices that have endured for centuries will almost certainly make it harder to attract converts--and will likely make the locals hostile toward you. On the other hand, if you allow the locals to keep their sinful customs, can you truly say that your proselytizing is helping them rather than hurting them?

@Mechabang 6 лет назад

General Luigi Well put.

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 лет назад

The ideal is to explain why the new practices are impotant and if you can’t maybe they are not.

@jowiemonster 6 лет назад

I would say you leave the old traditions alone and i most cases they will slowly die out on there own als de new religion expands and becomes more and more of daily life.

@johnmccarron7066 6 лет назад

Speaking as a Christian...yes, it does. The Ten Commandments still apply, a lot of the Abrahamic Code technically still applies (Christ said he wasn't there to overthrow the law, but to fulfill it), and Jesus left a list of dos and don'ts. And, depending on which sect of Christianity you follow, you may find a simple or fairly stringent code of living that can be quite 'arbitrary' to some folks.

@KnuxTube 6 лет назад

As an Abrahamic believer, I may try to take a stab at this well put question. Islam, for example, can often adapt to a culture without losing its religious foundation. Take a look at the Moors in Spain. When the North Africans invaded Moorish Spain, originally to help the Muslims against the Catholics, they were shocked. They deemed what they saw as heresy and blasphemy, all the art and intermingling, sexual freedom and high ranks of Jews and Christians.Though they were not only of the same faith but the same ethnic heritage, Moorish and Berber, the cultural gap within the same religion was staggering. So it's certainly possible for culture and religion not to *bend* to each other but complement each other in a way that adds to both without taking away the good in both.

@CitanulsPumpkin 6 лет назад

Surprisingly, Mali culture turns out remarkably similar to Viking culture in this one area. "Just the one god? Sure, right. I'll have just the one ale too while I'm at it."

@dr.zoidberg8666 6 лет назад

In the final exam of our History of the Middle East class, a friend of mine accidentally called Ibn Battuta "Ibn Batooty" & I will never forget him because of that. Ibn Batooty: Truly a great man.

@randomperson4695 3 года назад

Lol

@BobHerzog1962 6 лет назад

Let's take a guess. Gifting gold was considered bad form in a country that had so much in abudance and didn't even use it as currency.

@dcbanacek2 6 лет назад

Good point. So you've just come out of the desert and are being received by the local government, what would be more important to that person? Food and water or some shiny metal you can't eat?

@gameboyhotline3712 6 лет назад

dcbanacek2 and good food at that pudding and honey sounds like it was expensive in those times and when your traveling 2 months through sands and sun all you’ve been eating is tried and salted meat and idk like some old fruit. Mali showed him kindness, education and great wealth but to him he saw it as laziness and rudeness.

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised. You probably nailed it on the head.

@hiddenhist 6 лет назад

BobHerzog1962 the hell should they just give away their gold for no reason? Should America just start gifting away money to visitors now?

@BobHerzog1962 6 лет назад

Well actually you do gift certain visitors either money or stuff that is a lot of money. In return certain officials from the US recieve the same courtesey when they visit other countries. It's diplomatic ettiquette. Also notice that travelers were not quiet as common as today in western society. And even those you don't want to give money you spend a lot of money on to get them out again or to hinder them comeing in. Ibn Battutah also wasn't just anyone. He was a well known scholar, friend of Kings and basically had somewhat the status of an ambassador. And lastley one has to accept that other cultures and other times had different custdoms. And it usually works when it is a thing everyone does. Because if every scholar of certain esteem is gifted valueables then yes you have to give out some money but your scholars will also recieve money when they travel and thus you don't have to support their travels as much. It would like, if the US and other nations agree that instead of their home University paying travel costs for scientific conferences the nation it is held in would do so. As long as everyone does so and noone has an relative to their size overly large amount of conferences it works. Back in those times it meant scholars had to carry less valuables with them and thus were less likely to be robbed of them.

@FeyTheBin 4 года назад

Ah yes, that lad Battuta, finally with his own series. Just gonna watch this one again as I wait for more episodes.

@dreadhead5719 4 года назад

Fey that’s why I went back here.

@josesphaturaya488 4 года назад

It's the son of Battuta, not Battuta himself.

@JcoleMc 2 года назад

They should do an video of Ibn battuta's trip to Swalhi coast

@frederickkeeslar1761 6 лет назад

I'm so glad that you guys have been covering African history. I studied some African history during college, and it never gets as much attention as it should. Just as a suggestion, you guys should look at the city-states along the east coast of Africa and the kingdom of Madagascar. Unfortunately, most of the city-states were destroyed by the Portuguese, but they still have a very interesting history. There's also Great Zimbabwe and the kingdoms of Kush, which are also very fascinating empires.

@zacharysnyder2520 6 лет назад

Ibn Battutah probbably lived one of the most interesting lives in history.

@HaloLibrarian 6 лет назад

My EU4 Mali campaign is because of these videos

@Nihilvidz 6 лет назад

Are you going for the achievement?

@melfice999 6 лет назад

Considering the time frame, shouldn't you rather go for a Crusader Kings 2?

@davidking6242 6 лет назад

Crusader kings 2 would be more appropriate. I'm doing a series right now and I just conquered morroco and Iberia as the malians

@manelgf1 6 лет назад

I recommend colonising Brazil one you've got a hold of the western coast. It's actually at a stone's throw! (Watch out for those Spanish and Portuguese though...)

@Carewolf 6 лет назад

Did that in EU3.. Fun times. Only annoying thing is that to get better tech progression I had to westernize, there was no option to have closer ties to the muslim world to get their tech speed. But yes pre-scambling Africa, and getting a head start on overseas colonies is key to victory.

@abdur1996 4 года назад

This is soo much cooler to watch after the Ibn Batuta series! You guys are a treasure!

@TheNekoGentleman 6 лет назад

... You managed to make me love the history of my country and my religion. Me, a man that used to despise both. Kudos.

@antoniolewis1016 6 лет назад

Hooray!

@thepbg8453 6 лет назад

Out of curiosity why would you despise it?

@assalane 6 лет назад

I am also Malian in origin. I apreciate the highlight too, but there are still aspects of the religions I despise, be it Islamic or pagan

@echoambiance4470 6 лет назад

Which country might i ask?

@assalane 6 лет назад

Echo Ambiance Mali

@FnKtelevision 6 лет назад

Fun Fact: there is a mall in Dubai named after and themed around this man

@Abd121 6 лет назад

been there, almost everything from imported/made in China. was very disappointed!...

@omarbell4579 6 лет назад

FnKDeadBeat He's as iconic in the Islamic world as Marco Polo in the west.

@nakenmil 6 лет назад

+Abd So like how Las Vegas puts up random replicas of European and Egyptian landmarks, then.

@FnKtelevision 6 лет назад

+Abd yeah it's not the most impressive mall in dubai. mostly went there for the IMax screen when I lived there

@mxsdrago 6 лет назад

Only just realized that the different countries in the mall represent his travels. Holy shit.

@isadoracostahamsi163 6 лет назад

I LOVE African history. Please do more of them. We get enough Europe in school.

@Talleyhoooo 2 года назад

Totally agree!

@nahheio 4 года назад

I’m here on a side trip

@SlimTony 6 лет назад

Man, the mali empire sounds like a really nice place.

@mostafabellabiad3030 6 лет назад

This is a wonderful day. Finally I can see a icon of Moroccan history in Extra Credits, and it's Ibn Battuta, the famous traveller ! I'm so glad and I hope you will cover more about this man who saw so much things in the world. Great work as always guys !

@degenerate3288 6 лет назад

Anyone else think that Ibn might have some plot armour

@Loremaster85 6 лет назад

It's easy to have plot armour when you're the one writing the story about your own travels.

@nomad20122 6 лет назад

Osiris ibn is not his first name, ibn means son and this was his nickname son of batuta not actual name

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 лет назад

Is he reliable? I recall one traveler who was not and tried to google if this was him but apparently only his account of going to Bulgaria was unreliable?

@Abd121 6 лет назад

he was a religious scholar, His way of seeing and documenting his surroundings would've probably been very different from that of a real historian!

@8xMorladumx8 6 лет назад

+ 1 to you Loremaster xD

@zaaimi 6 лет назад

Moroccan here, I am simply happy you mention morocco and Ibn Battuta. Great explorer, and his writing still stands today as an open window to the islamic world during that period.

@duderzguy1236 6 лет назад

This channel needs more subs

@eventyraren 6 лет назад

DuderzGuy 123 I also think they shold change there name sens extra credit is no longer the only show here.

@whatareyougay2826 6 лет назад

DuderzGuy 123 I need more sub's.

@mattzhang4854 6 лет назад

ok but yogurt and honey is awesome

@mattzhang4854 6 лет назад

so do bread cakes, sour curds, and beef

@azelfdaboi5265 5 лет назад

Yes

@junior4900 4 года назад

Lieutenant Terry Jeffords of Brooklyn's 99th Precinct agrees

@NikkiBikki 4 года назад

Random, I'm eating that now...

@jubileeYAVEL 3 года назад

Ikr!

@MisterOrange1 6 лет назад

Love how everyone is respectful in the comment section.

@auliafajar9346 4 года назад

Who came back here after the newest Ibn Battuta series?

@TrueZero2 4 года назад

You know that moment where you think 'THAT'S where I heard the name from'? That was what I had with Ibn Battuta.

@isitokaytoeatquick-wittedb2953 4 года назад

I came back again to watch this after finishing the Ibn Battuta series, and after seeing his numerous other travels, the Battuta here in Mali that I previously thought obnoxious, is actually really just expectant. During his other trips, the rulers always give him big welcoming and parting gifts, always riches, gold, slaves, houses, horses, so he probably expect the emperor of Mali who has so many gold will be even more extravagant in gift giving, moreso that Battuta is coming to Mali by the order of the Moroccan sultan, hence making him some sort of ambassador.

@JunkPhuJP 6 лет назад

It will be interesting to see how the region Mali inhabits converted to a majority Islamic populace over the centuries, and slowly left some of the traditional African beliefs. Also, the gold security reminds me a lot about the Chinese and Mongolian iron grip on silk and silk worms. Also, friendly reminder to everyone that we need to keep discussing what happened to the 2000+ ship expedition that disappeared without a trace haha.

@mustipunyaemail 6 лет назад

Most likely those 2000 ships had landed in carribian.

@braniacc 6 лет назад

It was Walpole.

@JubioHDX 11 месяцев назад

@@mustipunyaemail more likely than that is that they died in a storm at sea or got lost. I feel like there would be at least slight evidence of 2000+ ships full of west africans landing in the new world when columbus and the rest of the europeans actually arrived in the carribbean less than 2 centuries later, even genetic evidence would make it obvious if they truly did make landfall, since the natives of the americas are closest in relation to asians due to how their ancentors arrived from the land bridge in the north rather than being so close to africans due to such a substantial influx of them at such a recent date.

@benzur3503 6 лет назад

i love the way you acknowledge and embrace the unreliability of the narrator and explain it from multipile angles so much

@fbaez7132 6 лет назад

Man, an Ibn Battutah EH series would be perfect

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

I know, right?

@collinsagyeman6131 4 года назад

WE HAVE ONE NOW!!!!!!

@beknown63 4 года назад

Did someone say SIDE TRIP?

@connerymilne6466 6 лет назад

The Mali Empire, aka real world Wakanda

@Argantys 6 лет назад

Wakanda forever!

@tonytruong861 6 лет назад

MALI FOREVER =D

@AnasDaif 6 лет назад

Minus everything and I sjust a piece of buildings in middle of desert .

@a.a.6789 6 лет назад

oh man! ibn batuta was badass and freaking hilarious I love it!! he'd make a great protag in a movie! he probably became wiser with age,but I can't blame him for his reactions,cultural shock is too real!😂😂 this channel is amasing keep up the good work❤❤

@PavarottiAardvark 6 лет назад

Bread, beef, and sour curds....the gift was a Cheeseburger!

@talknight2 6 лет назад

I can haz cheezburger?

@tg10tg Год назад

It actually sounds like a nice place to live in that century at least

@Captainflake99 6 лет назад

I have seen a video about a prince from west Africa making a pilgrimage to Mecca and he had billions in gold. On his travels he brought and spent so much in Egypt that gold was devalued nearly overnight and it would take a century before it returned to its value before he turned up

@alfreddupont1214 6 лет назад

Not a century, but a decade

@talknight2 6 лет назад

Mansa Musa

@egully6755 6 лет назад

I would love to see one of these exclusively on Ibn Battutah

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

Hell yeah!

@davidheitzenrater9027 6 лет назад

You guys should really do a series on Ibn Battutah's travels. He honestly puts Marco Polo to shame.

@chowyee5049 6 лет назад

Will you ever do a series on the Ethiopian Empire?

@davidking6242 6 лет назад

Chow Yee Lee definatley should. Focus it on the medieval Christian abbysinian empire specifically that's my favourite with aksum as second fav in Ethiopia

@Jan-rq8mo 6 лет назад

depends on the patrions

@JohnnyLodge2 6 лет назад

At least a stand alone on lalibella

@gameboyhotline3712 6 лет назад

JohnnyLodge2 I’d rather see one on Halie or a series on the era of princes

@mxsdrago 6 лет назад

t h e y n e v e r g o t E t h i o p i a

@xenos12500 6 лет назад

Mali sounds like a fairly good place to live compared to other empires and kingdoms at the time.

@olamideolanrewaju4005 6 лет назад

Wow. You have history videos of African Empires. You're awesome. Thanks a lot.

@nmnmbj 6 лет назад

Its nice to hear about the Berber for once a lot of the time you see the written off just as Arabs not their own ethnic group.

@dialaskisel5929 6 лет назад

Awesome episode, I love the format. Telling the story of an empire and it's practices from the written accounts of an outsider traveling through their land has an unmistakable air of adventure

@PelegdolevWackyycool 4 года назад

Who else is here in 2020 after the bin bahtutah series

@C.O.R.E_Supermacy 6 лет назад

The Mali culture seems so intriguing! I'd love to learn more about their history.

@unklemoose 6 лет назад

Mansa Musa is one of my favorite historic figures. A man so wealthy that just his VISITING Egypt on his pilgrimage almost caused the Egyptian economy to collapse. Amazing. Would also be interested in seeing if you cover the "drum" style of trading they practiced at that time.

@Leivve 6 лет назад

And there are still some people that think Africans didn't have nations or cultures.

@unknowndane4754 6 лет назад

Even worse there are the people that think of Africa as some sort of unified thing

@Leivve 6 лет назад

Well yeah, they're all black right? That means they're all the same right, cause that's totally how it works.

@kayzsosa1414 6 лет назад

Leivve word

@supermanboy1255 6 лет назад

Leivve Race and culture are separate and Ethiopian is not a South African

@Leivve 6 лет назад

Wrong comment dude.

@musicaldoge9412 6 лет назад

I just wanna say two things. First this is spectacular what you guys do by teaching people history throw such simple drawings, and second how it helps me in an ApWH class to study easier by just simply watching one of your guys is videos. I would also like to ask for a recommendation, if okay, that you can make an episode on the Olmec empire, after this one of course. Once again thanks, and I hope the team at Extra Credits is doing well. Have a good day!

@iamseamonkey6688 4 года назад

At least we finally get an ibn battuta series now

@GarthTheMighty 6 лет назад

That camel is adorable. And may or may not be Billy Batson.

@underwoodessays6936 4 года назад

Anyone watching this after the end of the Ibn Battutah seris?

@mtnrth4080 4 года назад

Me!

@zaclegoattack 4 года назад

@celeen7476 4 года назад

@badhombre7247 6 лет назад

This channel is getting better and better after each episode.

@YourTypicalMental 6 лет назад

Man, the Empire of Mali sounds so cool.

@tomuch4u969 4 года назад

Who’s here after the ibn battuta series?

@Based-wn9jg 4 года назад

Everyone

@Cometstarlight 6 лет назад

Le gasp, a married woman talking to another man in friendship?! The scandal!

@PongoXBongo 6 лет назад

Maybe she was discussing sandwich recipes?

@Cometstarlight 6 лет назад

You never know~

@merrittanimation7721 6 лет назад

PongoXBongo The horror! Next she'll tell him her secret sauce!

@waleedalam7927 6 лет назад

19th century England was this uptight too you know.

@Cometstarlight 6 лет назад

Not even close to this extent. Nice try though.

@AS-jy6pf 4 года назад

Last part of ibn battuta episode brought me here

@cosmicwatermelon3927 6 лет назад

This is my favourite series so far, trade is so fascinating! I wish I could see the journey of all my consumer products in full.

@everfree4175 6 лет назад

In my honest opinion Mali Empire was the best Muslim nation of its time.

@gameboyhotline3712 6 лет назад

I just wish it wasn’t so isolated from the world by the Sahara

@Jarethenator 5 лет назад

@@gameboyhotline3712 If it wasn't as isolated it probably wouldn't have flourished the way that it did. Hence why the other empires had to deal with so much 𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 I mean, even if a place is so full of gold and all a big, sandy, army-killing desert really puts one off from going and messing with them in any major way... Not to mention if you're in closer proximity to other cultures, you're more likely to adopt them rather than develop and maintain your own unique one...

@pongers5895 3 года назад

I mean ibn batuta was a judge he judged

@benrennella5335 6 лет назад

This series is excellently timed I have just started studying the history of west African kingdoms in my history class, thank you for making this I love your work.

@kirbyjaeger2506 6 лет назад

I like how they take music from the cultures that they're looking at and play it as their outro. It really shows an attention to detail.

@kayzsosa1414 6 лет назад

A African history video not saturated with racism and afrocentrism I thought these were only myths

@coolbule1238 5 лет назад

dark ambience

@blakemoore122 5 лет назад

The comments seem fairly civil as well!!! Its so nice!!!

@Palestine4Ever169 4 года назад

kayz sosa Afrocentric don’t want their west African history They want North Africans and others history

@jamestodd1104 4 года назад

There’s just no real records. A lot is speculation.

@buddyltd 6 лет назад

Wow, I thought this was going to be interesting, but this is waaay more interesting than I imagined it would be! Awesome topic!

@javierrozasgomez2060 5 лет назад

Congratulations for your work. I'm a Spanish English student and I find your videos very interesting and out of the stereotype we figure out when we think of African History apart from Egyptians. Very instructive also to learn common and not so common words to improve my Englisj vocabulary. Thank you for your your work and I hope you post more historical videos soon. Saludos desde Madrid

@Westkane11 6 лет назад

Thank you for making these excellent history videos, they are very informative and entertaining at the same time :)

@humo89 6 лет назад

Love it! Awesome work Habibi!

@shawnheatherly 6 лет назад

Battutah sounds like the worst sort of guest, and yet we've got to be thankful for his account letting us know all this.

@TheFiresloth 6 лет назад

He sounds like the jerks who posts their holidays adventures on facebook. "I went to this place, and I was a total dick to the hotel staff. Wazaaaah !"

@ozmantheterrible9837 5 лет назад

he's more important than most Kings. a fucking jere, but also a hero

@robthebob4586 Год назад

Not exactly, sure is was a bit ungrateful at times but he brought a lot more good than bad.

@WildBillCox13 6 лет назад

Your team does a great job bringing history alive.

@oumardiallo7701 5 лет назад

i'm from the current Republic of Mali , really thank you

@Crimson_07 4 года назад

And a year later we'll be learning Ibn Battutah's story...

@thomaskilmer 6 лет назад

Mali sounds pretty awesome at the time. (Aside from enslaving people).

@davidking6242 6 лет назад

Thomas Kilmer true but slavery was pretty much everywhere in the Islamic world and beyond

@davidking6242 6 лет назад

Thomas Kilmer doesn't make it right tho. Far from it

@tahmaskenchers1782 6 лет назад

It wasnt as bad either. It wasnt chattle slavery. There were rules and laws concerning slaves. They could have land and raise family and they couldnt be killed at the whim of the master and thier jobs were limited to house work, working in the mines, and doing tasks like fetching shit and other stuff. People woild put themselves in slavery to clear debts and the like

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

My thoughts exactly.

@neutralfellow9736 6 лет назад

"It wasnt chattle slavery." - For most of the slaves it was. What you are describing is household slaves and indentured servants, but those were in a small minority. The vast majority were ordinary slaves who were worked to death in the gold mines and other laborous activities.

@taylorhancock5834 6 лет назад

In World History, we just recently learned about Ibn Battutah, but only acknowledged his existence. I'm glad that I actually do know his importance now. Thanks for your videos guys, they make history extremely interesting!

@jessemeyer445 5 месяцев назад

Bro ever since I discovered this channel all day everyday this is all I can watch when I have free time I can't pull myself away I love your channel

@Sondrebol 6 лет назад

I had hoped Timbucktu would come up. What little i know of the Songhai empire (and to some extent, Mali) is because of that city.

@gooberingo 3 года назад

Damn, for 13th century standarts mali seems like paradise

@Haydn8oR 6 лет назад

I've just recently (if a moth or two is recent) found this channle, and really like it. But the extra history is what really brought me here, and i have to say, its really opened my mind to more than jist world war one or two, more than just the wars in our history, and more on individual people like Ned Kelly, Mary Secole, or John Snow, and I have to say. Good job, few channels, movies, and tv shows get my interested in diffrent things that went on in our history on earth, really can't wait for more to come, either it be an episode on Anne Frank, or the events leading up to the American revolution I'll be happy to watch it, and I'm going to recommend this to my history teacher, and anyone else who is interested in history, heck even my uncle. So thank you, and keep the videos up.

@aperson5135 6 лет назад

You know... I was looking at your first videos and I just realized its been over 3 years apparently since I started watching since I started watching during the warring states videos... damn I have to say I have honestly really enjoyed theise videos and I look forward to them every week I cant wait for the next video

@joinmarch76 6 лет назад

You know, it's times like this that make me glad I subscribed to this channel. I would have likely never heard of the Mali Empire hadn't it been for you guys; and it's a damn good thing I did. This empire was amazing for many things; perhaps my favorite aspects include its progressiveness for its time, and its religious freedom. You ask me, America could learn a thing or two from this... But let's not turn this into a diatribe on my grievances with Westboro Baptists roaming free; no, this is about the Mali Empire. And while this may be a roundabout way of saying it, I'm happy I learned of its majesty.

@3ipolarBear 6 лет назад

though you were gonna mention the berbers were battuttas compatriots, given he was also a berber

@TheCreepypro 6 лет назад

how utterly fascinating I don't think I have ever heard this discussed in any great detail anywhere nor do I hold any knowledge of it I am really going to enjoy this