The Empire of Mali - Mansa Musa - Extra History - Part 3

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📜 History of the Empire of Mali: Mansa Musa is remembered as the richest person in the entire history of the world, but he also worked hard to establish the empire of Mali as a political and even religious superpower. However, his excessive wealth started creating bigger problems... EDIT: at 6:30 we accidentally used a photo of the Great Mosque of Djenne to represent Djinguereber Mosque.
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@extrahistory 6 лет назад

Jeff Bezos has, like, a *fraction* of the wealth Mansa Musa possessed. Let's learn about the fabled glory days of the Mali Empire! Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/extracredits

@JimBob-qj2ye 6 лет назад

Love these videos please keep them up

@lukewarmshoulder3785 6 лет назад

Extra Credits could you do a video that documents the life of Winston Churchill.

@KekuTheLaughing 6 лет назад

RU-vidr's flexing on kids while MM flexed on the entire world

@AnimeOtaku2 6 лет назад

Lukewarm Shoulder including things like advocating for gas attacks on African tribes and the artificial famine in India.

@lukewarmshoulder3785 6 лет назад

AnimeOtaku2 I said his life good and bad Like how he lost a lot of soldiers lives at the battle of Gallipoli or how he served as a British soldier and his big accolade how he kept Britain in the war arguably being the most important part of ww2

@mybutthasteeth1347 6 лет назад

That moment you accidentally destroy an economy while on holiday

@htoodoh5770 6 лет назад

SGT Mango yep, LOL

@alexbattaglia8297 6 лет назад

SGT Mango hate when that happens

@angelaphsiao 6 лет назад

Whoops what a mistake

@bonda_racing3579 6 лет назад

Bill gates got nothing this guy lol

@LordBloodySoul 6 лет назад

Thinking about it, makes me laugh. No other person or even War in history managed to destroy an entire economy that fast o_o This guy was a walking death sentence for the world market.

@stevenchoza6391 6 лет назад

I guess you could say Mali was going through a GOLDEN age.

@airmanon7213 6 лет назад

Steven Choza *Ba-dum-tsh!*

@stevenchoza6391 6 лет назад

Airmanon 😆😆😆

@clayxros576 6 лет назад

Probably where we get the term, really.

@mestre12 6 лет назад

Oh god, now i really want Mali on Civ 6.

@pdreding 6 лет назад

Agreed. They were lots of fun in IV.

@ilya5971 6 лет назад

The level of education in West Africa became so high that in the 1400s, when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tamīmī, a scholar from the Arabian Peninsula, came to Timbuktu to teach, he was not even qualified to study in Timbuktu and had to take prerequisite courses in Morocco first.

@sjappiyah4071 6 лет назад

That’s awesome lol!

@kayzsosa1414 6 лет назад

Sultan lol

@sparkman1314able 6 лет назад

Ilya When west Africans were enslaved in thee Americas they were educated. The Africans brought the idea of farming rice. They also already knew how to farm unlike the indigenous pop. One slave in Boston introduced inoculation basically starting off vaccines

@Belburg 5 лет назад

Amazing.

@PrimusGladius 5 лет назад

@@sparkman1314able I've never once heard anyone suggest that Native Americans lacked agriculture. Where did you hear this? And how do you reconcile the fact that Native American crops are among the most widely consumed staples now grown the world over? Just look up the Three Sisters for a perfect example of Native agricultural understanding.

@chowdhurysakib-uz-zaman1246 5 лет назад

I'm from Bangladesh, half of the world away from Mali. Surprisingly, here we have a folktale describing and glorifying the riches of Mansa Musa, his generosity amd his extravagant pilgrimage. I always thought he was a fictitious figure. Never knew that he was for real!!!! His PR campaign surely transcended ages, continents and oceans.

@toshiba162 4 года назад

What is the name of that folktale? Need more infos please

@laabib44 4 года назад

@@toshiba162 Manda Musa and his wealth and travels, duh

@quazifaiyaz1 3 года назад

ReverseMovieTrailers what?

@dielimdiabate6636 2 года назад

Can u please give the me title of the folklore

@javierguillen2088 22 дня назад

Más influencia tubieron los portugueses en la India, Malasia qué mansa musa.. Erigieron ciudades como bombay.. El resto solo es un cuento.. El TAL MAJAL fue financiado con la plata (ag) española.. De Potosí virreinato del Perú.. Saludos desde Fontainebleau fr 🇨🇵

@Onebadterran 6 лет назад

His publicity stunt was so grand we still talk about it today

@jeannebouwman1970 6 лет назад

At least it worked

@cedrickulacz8468 6 лет назад

Yeah, quite the stunt if you ask me.

@Obsi399 6 лет назад

thats how you make a hell of an impression. cause mass inflation by shopping

@ufoid188 6 лет назад

Yeah like 700 years later we still talk about it

@surfwavtv 5 лет назад

Too bad we don’t teach it in world history

@GeneralLuigiTBC 6 лет назад

Genie: Prince Ali! Fabulous he! Ali A-- Musa: You call _that_ an entrance? Please. Let me show you how it's done.

@claudiag.9307 6 лет назад

General Luigi 👏👏

@MaraK_dialmformara 6 лет назад

General Luigi I would not be surprised if the Prince Ali thing is based on Mansa Musa’s haj.

@alperena1675 6 лет назад

Genie: He's got seventy-five golden cam- Mansa Musa: Hold my Gold.

@MilanPavlovic540 6 лет назад

*Crashes the regional gold market*

@yserareborn 6 лет назад

Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, although it's still hilarious that reality managed to beat a deliberately over-the-top animated moment.

@cometmoon4485 6 лет назад

"What do you know about Mali?" "It's a third world country." "All a front. Explorers have searched for it. Called it El Dorado. They looked in South America, but it was in Africa the whole time!"

@NoName-hg6cc 2 года назад

I get that reference!

@emilygordbort7300 8 месяцев назад

Where is the reference from?

@silverking2181 5 месяцев назад

@@emilygordbort7300Black Panther.

@emilygordbort7300 5 месяцев назад

@@silverking2181 Thanks!

@DragoniteSpam 6 лет назад

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." *braces for next episode*

@mykomatos5445 6 лет назад

Open your eyes Yourself apprise All empires find their demise The taller they are, the harder they fall The snowball Is on the roll

@bernardoheusi6146 6 лет назад

Walpole´s master plan is almost ready

@robertwalpole360 6 лет назад

Shh! That's for later!

@htoodoh5770 6 лет назад

Robert Walpole LOL

@reylimesa4019 6 лет назад

DragoniteSpam that what she said

@charlotte1924 6 лет назад

Knowing that great libraries of knowledge where built but later destroyed makes me sad.

@sars910 6 лет назад

Yes. People tend not to appreciate knowledge. Only when it is lost do the people mourn. Like how the Library of Alexandria was destroyed or how the Mongols destroyed the Great Libraries of Baghdad. They threw all the books in the Euphrates River. Legend has it that the river turned black due to the ink of the books.

@sirahfalconet 6 лет назад

And red from the blood of the scholars

@rileyrose5166 6 лет назад

Ser Davos Seaworth And then there's the Mayan codices, burned by the Spanish priests. Just think about how much knowledge we'd have if they weren't burned, we could study the mayans as extensively as the Romans but alas, that wasn't to be

@MrAlen6e 6 лет назад

Unfortunately on Timbuktu some of their libraries we're burned to the ground, thankfully a handful of scholars were able to save some of the books. Sad times for Mali, hopefully we can see it's glory return one day

@sars910 6 лет назад

Riley Reber To think how much knowledge has been lost to our hubris and haste. There is a Roman legend of a King of Rome. An old crone would come to him every year and try to sell him all the knowledge in the world, in the form of 12 books, but the King would refuse and say that it's too expensive. Each year the crone would burn half the books. Each year the King's city suffered and the people implored him to buy the books and use the knowledge they contained. But the next year the prices would be doubled and the king would refuse once more. This continued until only one book remained. The king bought this book by nearly emptying his coffers. As the crone left, bent double due to the weight of the gold, she told the King to do as best as he could with 1/12th the knowledge of the world.

@LuisMartinez-er4fk 5 лет назад

Breaking News: Mansa Musa comes back from the dead to pay ALL student loans.

@nick-playercharacter8583 6 лет назад

I like to call Mansa Musa's journey "Pimp My Pilgrimage".

@ShehrozeAmeen 5 лет назад

In fairness though, The fact that it was an opulent and unbelievably, astronomically expensive travel to perform the Hajj, does make it less of the "Pimp my pilgrimage" to something akin to actual that meme of "YOU GET GOLD, AND YOU GET GOLD, AND YOU GET GOLD. GREETINGS FROM MALI, BROTHER, YOU GET GOLD!" In fact, I would say "Pimp my Empire" would be a lot more reasonable thing to say: He was literally advertising his empire, rather than advertising the pilgrimage itself.

@ImehSmith 5 лет назад

😅😂🤣👍🏽👍🏽

@JubioHDX 11 месяцев назад

@@ShehrozeAmeen He was doing both. Yes he was advertising his empires wealth, but it was by no mistake that he chose to do it on his hajj. He was advertising "Look how rich and powerful my DEVOUT ISLAMIC empire is" rather than just empire. Like it was said in the video he wanted to make sure mali was not only seen as a powerful nation but wanted it to be the apex of the islamic world specifically

@duchessnoor 6 лет назад

*Wow, that guy's rich.*

@herbertvonbismarck8303 6 лет назад

Guthrum I bet if they were still around they would help the Germans pay off their debt or America's

@seandonnelly453 6 лет назад

Is this imposter central?

@guthrumsannouncer794 6 лет назад

What’s up

@clawtimes864 6 лет назад

Guthrum he was the richest man ever in history

@BifronsCandle 6 лет назад

We gotta start pillaging some stuff.

@CPPpotkustartti 6 лет назад

Rumor has it, that every time Mansa raised his hand to shake someones hand, two bystanders were knocked off unconscious by all the gold he carried in his sleeves that he gave as tip for any merchant.

@tntimothyroditi1576 4 года назад

he must have been really strong to carry all this gold on him constantly. it's like wearing dumbbells in your suit- gold is very dense

@judochopmaster8233 4 года назад

@@tntimothyroditi1576 he bought muscle enhancements

@Pikazilla 6 лет назад

"My rivals back home It's not that I'm bitter But think how they'll squirm When they see how I glitter!"

@DragoniteSpam 6 лет назад

I don't know much about this "oddly satisfying imagery" trend that's been going on for a while, but the color wheel at 1:15 DEFINITELY fits that bill.

@guillaumegs4687 6 лет назад

what about that smiley face which lasted less than a second, in between 2:21 and 2:22? ;)

@MrRighto 6 лет назад

Guillaume Guedj Swal thats no smiley face, thats the representation of games from extra credits being sewn as a joke for the word so sounding like sew

@BurningSunBloodyMoon 6 лет назад

I believe that's meant to represent the Twelve Doors of Mali - provinces that were the basis for the empire's administration.

@1Korlash 6 лет назад

That's it, I'm convinced: Subsaharan Africa would be a great setting for a Total War game.

@yanl9tanilo194 4 года назад

Yes especially ambiented in 19th century

@PK-ex6nf 3 года назад

@@yanl9tanilo194 no exactly the wrong time.

@ee-ly4jb 6 лет назад

Friend: will you ever stop watching extra credits? Me: *Under No Circumstance*

@TheFriendlyFoxyChannel 6 лет назад

I knew there was going to be a huge "BUT...!" in this tale. It all sounded far to perfect

@ImehSmith 5 лет назад

But it’s documented facts tho

@mureithikivuti 5 лет назад

Remember most accounts are from Islamic sources. Oral sources view his actions as more of a waste of resources

@Gustav_Kuriga 2 года назад

@@mureithikivuti Oral sources are from ones biased against that very Islamic perspective. They aren't necessarily any more accurate, in fact likely less so.

@stephenjenkins7971 2 года назад

@@Gustav_Kuriga Well, as was shown, Mali DID start to face massive issues immediately after this golden age, so...

@Gustav_Kuriga 2 года назад

@@stephenjenkins7971 A) Not immediately afterwards B) Was this a result of lack of funds, or because of internecine conflicts?

@Adamantium93 5 лет назад

Genie: He's got 75 golden camels! Mansa Musa: Just 75, huh? That's cute.

@Adamantium93 2 года назад

@Mr wick I mean, if we count fictional people, sure.

@Adamantium93 2 года назад

@Mr wick We're talking about financial wealth, not any sort of spiritual wealth here. Believe what you want about your religion, but there is no historical basis to suggest that King Solomon (who we aren't even sure really existed) had anything close to the financial wealth that the stories of him say he did. The biblical account is, at best, an exaggeration of a real king who, while comparatively wealthy to those in his region, was still small-potatoes compared to most empires in history. Many Bible scholars even consider accounts of Solomon's wealth to be metaphors meant to emphasize his spiritual wealth rather than accurate depictions of his financial wealth (similarly to how the Chinese Buddha is depicted as fat and happy while the real Buddha was solemn and thin -- this depiction is using physical health to stand in for spiritual health). As for people who we have actual evidence for, Mansa Musa is the wealthiest man in history.

@Adamantium93 2 года назад

@Mr wick I made no mention of his race, merely the historical record and evidence we have or lack, so I'm tempted to think you're trolling. But, assuming (despite my better instincts) that you're serious, do you have sources to back up your assertions that he was "more real" and "more wealthy" than most kings in history?

@keeperofeurobeat8421 6 лет назад

The King of Mali is so rich he's going on tour to let everyone know. "Wow, that guy's rich!" Everyone said.

@ibtastico 2 года назад

bill wurtz cool

@degenerate3288 6 лет назад

Finally Mansa Musa has finally arrived

@cometmoon4485 6 лет назад

Here comes a new challenger!

@PixelProphecy 6 лет назад

"Mansa Musa caused a financial crisis by buying too many souvenirs" → me in Skyrim. ;)

@StephySon 4 года назад

When I first learned about this as a child it blew my mind away. To learn that an African kingdom had this much wealth and knowledge and power was enlightening. This is meanwhile while I also grew up hearing bigots say terrible things about Africa which to a young black child was demoralizing. Mansa Musa is to this day an inspiration for Black success the world over.

@stephenjenkins7971 2 года назад

I mean, Africa as a whole is kinda regressive compared to the likes of Asia, Europe, or North America

@MixerRenegade95 Год назад

@@stephenjenkins7971 Jenkins... see this is why you lost your ear, now bugger off.

@SamuelTrademarked Год назад

@@MixerRenegade95 he isn't wrong though. Africa is still having problems with its society that few of western nations are having right now. civil wars are way more abundant in africa than europe or north america have had for centuries.

@MixerRenegade95 Год назад

@@SamuelTrademarked Firstly: Last I checked Africa is a continent not a country. Second there are issues within differing parts but let's not say the whole bathtub and baby needs throwing out now. Nigeria is as far away from Sudan as Morocco is from Kenya.

@kakyoin9688 Год назад

@@MixerRenegade95 I mean half the nations you chose are in some sort of instability. But, nations like Botswana are prospering.

@airmanon7213 6 лет назад

History repeats itself. How often have some of the great leaders stepped up only for their nations to fall apart after they depart?

@TuniEich 6 лет назад

Airmanon Bismarck... poor guy...

@rodrigopaim82 6 лет назад

Bismarck said only two extremely important things: Do not fight a two-front war, and do not mess in the Balkans. He dies and Germany fights not one, but TWO wars in all fronts, one of them starting in the Balkans.. oh boy

@aprilknight6971 6 лет назад

Not to mention the not being in the minority of five advice, and then he dies and Germany fights 3 major European powers at once. There is a lot of good Bismarck advice that was not followed after his death

@mestre12 6 лет назад

Bismarck was so ahead of he time.

@Incuggarch 6 лет назад

I think there is often a great bias in how historical leaders are viewed in that leaders who simply shepherd their nations resources carefully with an eye towards handing over a strong and stable nation to their next in line are overshadowed by the bombastic leaders who spend every resource their nation can muster on conquests that leaves a spent and overstretched nation to slowly collapse as their next in line takes over.

@khulekanimagubane9153 5 лет назад

You are one of the few educational channels that shows the glorious ancient history of Africa. Please keep going. Thank you.

@koopanique 6 лет назад

I'm so glad such a popular YT channel tackles the Mali Empire history. I think West-Africa's history is very underrated, so this is most welcome

@akrybion 6 лет назад

Amazing. Kinda sad that this amazing kingdom eventually fell down and became what it is now...

@JohnnyElRed 6 лет назад

Funny thing? Mansa means "gentle" or "tame" in spanish. Doesn't seem like a very fitting title for him, does it?

@kaztheirrelevant4082 6 лет назад

JohnnyElRed but only for females, for males its manso

@nusquamnemo4780 6 лет назад

In my dialect of Spanish, «manso» or «mansa» means something/someone that is great or in a very great amount, in addition to the standard meaning. Sometimes it even means even hot/handsome/beautiful. -¡Manso gentío! ‘What a huge crowd!’ -Ella es mansa maestra. ‘She's a great teacher.’ -Manso carro que te mandas. ‘What a big/expensive/cool car you've got there.’ -¡Mansa mujer la tuya! ‘What a hot wife you've got!’ So in Panamanian Spanish the name looks just peachy to us. (As an aside, I should note that most people, when they want to say ‘gentle/tame’, tend to use the diminutive; «mansito/mansita».)

@nidohime6233 6 лет назад

Nusquam Nemo Nope, here in Spain "manso/a" it always mean gentle or tamed.

@nusquamnemo4780 6 лет назад

Nido Hime Are you daft? That's why I said in my dialect. Panamanian Spanish, as I further clarified in my comment. You guys do some funky this with Spanish as well. Like the whole «botellón»thing, which here, just means ‘big bottle’ like it's supposed to, but over there in your dialects it means ‘a gathering of people, usually teen-agers, to drink booze until they pass out drunk’.

@kaztheirrelevant4082 6 лет назад

Manso its used in Chile the same way the people of Panama do.

@hemmingwayfan 6 лет назад

Damn my Euro-centric education! How am I only learning about all this NOW!?!

@viorelviorel2324 6 лет назад

because learning your history and your continent history is more important?

@NeonSm1le 6 лет назад

Because the world is incredibly interconnected, pretending Europe is an island with little outside influence as many schools do is a disservice to history. Yes Mali was not a major player in European events such as the black death or hundred years war but the image of Sub Saharan Africa in Europe was that of a man holding gold. This fed the mindsets Europeans had of Africa and almost certainly set the stage for the scramble for Africa.

@viorelviorel2324 6 лет назад

"pretending Europe is an island with little outside influence as many schools do is a disservice to history." pretending Mali (it really was not as impressive when european arrived) or Japan or whom ever were relevant is also a disservice given there is only a limited time and you can look up this interesting things on your own time like you do now

@MrPolychinel 6 лет назад

Are you saying only European history is relevant?

@Thraim. 6 лет назад

*@Xavier* Oh look, someone saying "are you saying", that always ends well. Please tell me where in his comment he said that *only* European history is *relevant* . He clearly said that *time* constraints are to blame here, not whether a topic is important enough or not. Children should not be left in the dark in regards of the history of their own people so they can learn what happened at the other end of the world. How would that be helpful? It is simply impossible to learn all of history. Heck, not even Professors of history know _all_ of it. There is a reason why even those people who dedicate their *life* to history have to specialise in certain fields. Or look at it from an other perspective. Do Chinese children learn about Europe or Africa first? Don't Saudi Arabian children learn of their own history first? How about you go over there and tell them not to be so [insert country of their origin here]-centric?

@Dozeji 6 лет назад

*summary of this episode* The king of Mali is so rich, he's going on tour to let everybody know. "Wow, that guy's rich" everyone said

@mayor4797 6 лет назад

This man deserves his own series

@muhammadabulyazid9944 6 лет назад

A good thing you brought the inflation it was one of 3 major causes that destroyed the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt the other 2 are the black death & the discovery of Cape of Good Hope. -it is truly a sad thing that a country would collapse due to foreign causes that they had nothing to do with. -unfortunately, some African nations suffer the same nowadays due to -climate change-, Mali included.

@muhammadabulyazid9944 6 лет назад

Infame de Patates They did but they were in a poor status due to long decline . Also the Ottomans let the rule Egypt under them until 1811 when a separatist governor eradicated them in 1811.

@BeratLjumani 6 лет назад

I like how your covering African Kingdoms especially Mali cause I like to show these to my friend whose a major Black Panther fan and I’m like “Here’s the real world equivalent to Wakanda, now stop yelling ‘Wakanda Forever’ every time you win a game of Overwatch with Doomfist!”

@lordsleepyhead 3 года назад

The history of Africa is seriously undertaught in standard Western education. I'm learning a lot of new things and I consider myself not entirely ignorant of history.

@Christopher-qq4dl 11 месяцев назад

Lol

@jonahjameson7112 5 лет назад

jeff bezos: over 12 quintillion...... mansa musa; thats cute

@AToZed71 6 лет назад

I am Mansa Musa in every monopoly game, causing unfixable inflations and collapsing shortly after I'm done ruining the economy

@ZAR556 5 лет назад

Every great leader always lack one thing, and one thing only Immortality.

@22espec 3 года назад

Or at least a good succesor.

@thorne9794 6 лет назад

Mansa Musa sounds like a pretty chill dude

@Horesmi 6 лет назад

An explorer king: -I'll go sail the Atlantic, will you rule the kingdom while I'm out? Regent: -OOOOHHH YEAAAAH THE THRONE IS SO SO MIIIINE!!! ... Wait. Did I say that out loud?

@Carewolf 6 лет назад

Imagine if they had made it back.. Mali colonization of South America two hundred years before the Europeans.

@fredrickfraser1659 6 лет назад

FTFY Juan II (1/1/2): -I'll go sail the Atlantic! Juan II has died. Enrique de Trastamara is now our king Enrique (0/0/0): -OOOOHHH YEAAAAH THE THRONE IS SO SO MIIIINE!!! ... *A Call to Arms* The Nation of England, your faithful ally, is requesting that you come to their aid in the Hundred Years War against France, Aragon, Scotland, Burgundy, and Navarra. This is a defensive war, where we need to help our ally. If we decline, we will get -25.0 prestige ... Enrique: ...shit.

@alchemist7525 6 лет назад

actually they may had arrived at south america (you can find maps of south and north america in the muslim world before colompus even born)

@BurningSunBloodyMoon 6 лет назад

Alchemist Really? Can you point to any examples? That'd be amazing, if true.

@Horesmi 6 лет назад

BurningSunBloodyMoon *big if true*

@Sarcasmitron 6 лет назад

So wait, did the Kiners just up and learn how to play Kora over a long weekend, or do they just like, put an ad on craigslist with the money you pay them?

@sushitoad6738 6 лет назад

That's what I'm wondering too haha. This outro music is especially authentic and lovely, I'm wondering if they have a sample library for such instruments...

@gabrielappleton4342 6 лет назад

Thanks to this comment, I just learned that Extra History has the same composers as Star Wars: TWC and Rebels. Awesome.

@namingisdifficult408 6 лет назад

Neil Quillen yeah

@RJTAYLER 6 лет назад

Well you've sold me on a subscription on this day. So thank you all the way as it is much fun to learn this way than what I faced back in my schooldays. A rarely taught subject in my part of the world was post-Roman and Pre-colonial Histories of the African continent, and to an extent the European one too, and this site has helped to fill in those gaps and I look forward to watching more.

@sirrobertwalpole1754 6 лет назад

Gotta love Mansa

@airmanon7213 6 лет назад

sir Robert Walpole How's it going, sir Robert Walpole?

@jeannebouwman1970 6 лет назад

How did you manage to get him that wealthy? By using bismarks plan?

@wojak-sensei6424 6 лет назад

Flexing before RiceGum

@mrbenoit5018 5 лет назад

Oona, queen of the FiremindΦ like I’d tell him that?

@canadianmonarchist6357 5 лет назад

jeff bezos: IM THE RICHEST MAN ALIVE Mansa Musa hold my beer

@jarahfluxman20 5 лет назад

Mansa Musa isn't alive🤨

@iisdogewow2561 4 года назад

whoosh

@iisdogewow2561 4 года назад

Jarah Fluxman whooshed

@dradenhaven1549 4 года назад

More like m'y minth tea.

@terner1234 4 года назад

@@iisdogewow2561 this isn't a whoooosh, Jarah clearly got the joke

@spamuraigranatabru1149 6 лет назад

Episode 2 is my favorite so far in this series! Nice work!

@JYT256 6 лет назад

RU-vidr: New video every Friday! Mansa Musa: New Mosque every Friday!

@ptripathy 5 лет назад

I tried to tell my friends about how Mansa Musa was the richest man to ever live, but they thought I said 'Monster Moose'

@McJethroPovTee 4 года назад

Mansa Musa, great king of Mali, you are blessed with wealth beyond comprehension, yet you remain uncorrupted. Raise your eyes from the marketplace to the heavens and satisfy your heart's great yearning for peace. Protect the prosperity of your people, and history will write your name in golden letters

@jayjohn9893 6 лет назад

Love it when you post. From narration to animation, videos are awesome. Today is a good day.

@rickawesomegaming1661 5 лет назад

So Mansa Musa basically destroyed an entire economic system for being too generous? (Insert Curb your Enthusiasm theme song)

@mrreyes5004 4 года назад

Tamatoa: I'm so SHINY! Mansa Musa: Hold my gold train.

@mett978 4 года назад

I love these! Both entertaining and insightful! Thank you :)

@Werebat 6 лет назад

Always a pleasure to watch these. I keep telling this history department at my school about them. Great work!

@blueroman5538 6 лет назад

This story is so cool! Im looking forward to more

@infinitememegod 4 года назад

“Whoops, I accidentally broke the entire gold value in Egypt!”

@Duke_of_Lorraine 6 лет назад

So, this is how the wealth of the South Sea Company was used...

@jeannebouwman1970 6 лет назад

You know who it was

@robertwalpole360 6 лет назад

Did somebody say the South Sea Company?

@bkjeong4302 5 лет назад

Speaking of which, how much would the SSC make in stocks if it started with the amount of debt equal to the amount of gold this guy had,

@twl6026 6 лет назад

The dedication you put into your video's is outstanding.

@MisterOrange1 6 лет назад

Yes! My favorite Empire!

@denisedoumbia1691 4 года назад

Same

@Anonymous-xn2xh 4 года назад

He was so rich, he went on a tour to show it off. “Wow! He’s rich” everyone said

@ayazamikanz5299 6 лет назад

Yayyy! you finally show us about Mansa Musa! I was waiting for it

@justafaniv1097 6 лет назад

So basically, Musa did exactly what DeBeers did with diamonds. He had so much concentrated rare material, that if/when it is released onto the market, it flooded it and devalued the previously rare material.

@ahkwyatt8174 2 года назад

The difference here is that Diamonds aren't actually rare, it's just that DeBeers has an exclusive monopoly on the trading industry.

@JubioHDX 11 месяцев назад

@@ahkwyatt8174 honestly the same is still true with gold, its just a shiny soft metal that all the world powers have giant vaults of just sitting collecting dust. We put value on it because we like shiny pretty things, but if it wasnt held back pretty much everyone would be able to have gold as well as diamonds. It only keeps its value because of the supply being artificially hampered so that the rich can stay rich, same situation as diamonds but a little bit lesser since gold is able to be mined in more areas it isnt as easy to gain a full monopoly over it.

@West_Kagle 6 лет назад

. An Empire drowning in gold is usually a bad thing......just ask the Spanish.

@captain_swaggin4065 6 лет назад

West Kagle gold wasn’t really that valuable to the malians since it was so abundant, salt was where it was really at

@West_Kagle 6 лет назад

. It was the gold flowing back to Spain from the Americas that caused the trouble. I would have thought that the gold flowing to the Mediterranean cost would have been detrimental to those areas, like what happened in Cairo, only on a larger and longer lasting scale.

@mjbull5156 6 лет назад

In Spain's case, the precious metal they flooded world markets with was silver.

@ArkadiBolschek 6 лет назад

What would the Spanish know about drowning in gold? The gold (and the silver, because it was mostly silver which came from the Americas) never stayed in Spain long enough for anyone to drown in it; it was spent away in wars to uphold the True Faith (tm) against Lutheran heretics. While the world trembled before the armies of the Spanish kings, Spain itself was one of the poorest countries in Europe.

@West_Kagle 6 лет назад

. Unless I'm remembering my Spanish history wrong, I was fairly sure that the large amounts of gold brought back from the Americas severely depressed the Spanish economy and fatally devalued the Spanish currency in the 1500s.

@rolland890 6 лет назад

Hey, I love your videos and I have a recommendation for a future series - one on the Seljuk Empire. Thanks, continue making superb videos!

@TheCherrykye 6 лет назад

these videos are fun and informative, great job!

@redafm4505 6 лет назад

We just learned this in school and this series has already proven better than standard education in 10 minutes than 2 months so thanks

@mestre12 6 лет назад

i hve been hyping so much for this episode. Mansa Musa history is one my favorites. Just think, this person was so rich, he able was to hyperinflate gold, freaking GOLD. This never happend before him or, i normaly woulndt said something like, but, i am so sure of this that i will say this time, will ever happen again. Never one person will be this rich ever again.

@HeroChaserDrillStar 6 лет назад

this is the first episode of Extra History that make me do a surprise face, Thanks Dan

@ShiolaValntn 6 лет назад

Was re watching your Bismarck (the ship series) when I got the notification of your new video, and of course I have to watch it

@255ad 6 лет назад

do one about the Kingdom of Kush taking over ancient Egypt

@temptemp4174 6 лет назад

255ad dude weed lmao

@sparkman1314able 6 лет назад

Alchemist real Egyptian???? Lmao. But the Greeks named it Egypt.

@accountretired9479 5 лет назад

What's a "real Egyptian"?

@sjappiyah4071 5 лет назад

UHURU Not an Arab or berber....

@mch7933 4 года назад

@@sjappiyah4071 Nah, there isn't any real egyptian anymore. All modern egyptians are Arabs or mixed

@francinemcloughlin6096 6 лет назад

Mansa Musa The 1300 equivalent of Scrooge Mcduck

@quintenwhyte6660 6 лет назад

Francine Mcloughlin or T'chala 😉

@jeannebouwman1970 6 лет назад

No?

@nakenmil 6 лет назад

Well, Scrooe McDuck would never have given the gold away. :P

@francinemcloughlin6096 6 лет назад

Enthused Norseman thats probably true. But Mansa Musa probably would have a money pool to swim in if it wouldn't break every bone in his body

@Chourtaird1 6 лет назад

He would have But just to show Mansa Musa who is richer. For no other reason.

@WildBillCox13 6 лет назад

A wonderful mini-series and I thank you for so very well entertaining an old man known to his associates for his love of the endoterica of the Human Condition.

@MightyMarsh 6 лет назад

Ain't it nice that even though I'm subscribed to this great channel and get notifications. This video didn't show up in my subscriptions feed.

@alastairtivy-harris8129 6 лет назад

I wonder if the "Prince Ali" scene in Disney's Aladdin was inspired by Mansa Musa. Make waaaaaaaay, for (the king of) Maliiiiiiiiiii!

@caiuswickersham 6 лет назад

Mansa Musa's flooding of the Egyptian market worked out to spark the Renaissance in Europe. The Italian merchants in Cairo found they could sell their products at the massively inflated prices and that gold went back to the Italian states where they began putting it into sponsoring artists and craftsmen.

@hiddenhist 6 лет назад

One of the most advanced empires in the world during its heyday.... oh what happened to you?

@rohanofelvenpower5566 6 лет назад

HiddenHistory illuminati - -

@christophergraffam3552 6 лет назад

Judging from what I history I have learned, it seems that almost every region was once the center of their known world until their inevitable decline. All have risen and all have fallen. Some remain in the light longer than others. Some even return to their old position as the center of the known world. Rome, Britain, Mali, Egypt, China, the Aztecs, the Inca, the Gupta, the Mauryan. All have fallen from the light or changed beyond recognition, such is life.

@kayzsosa1414 6 лет назад

HiddenHistory word

@grumpyturtle9682 6 лет назад

Was is Walpole?

@viorelviorel2324 6 лет назад

all empires decline John Bagot Glubb Fate of Empires goes in to detail and comes up with an average for how much empires last second Mansa Musa and rulers who will come after him wasted their wealth (this period was on the begining of the renaissance in europe) they could have done far greater things

@theretard3680 6 лет назад

Finally a episode about Mansa Musa I wanted a episode about this guy

@thetntsheep4075 6 лет назад

This kind of empire is my goal in every age of empires game I play xD Yes, I should probably get civilisation. I know.

@stefanmusikic1093 6 лет назад

Can you do a series on the collapse of the ottoman empire, and the different rebellions that brought it down.

@andrewwilcke9378 Год назад

Mansa Musa was a 1400's Mr. Beast on steroids? Noice

@chtulufhtagn1344 6 лет назад

Yay! More Extra History!

@Dirty_dms 6 лет назад

That was the gold time for Muslims Thank you guys I love your videos

@raihanlyla6454 6 лет назад

Are you a muslim if soo hi muslimic brother

@MrBigCookieCrumble 6 лет назад

i see what you did there

@y7va 5 лет назад

Mr BigCookie dude didn’t realize he made that pun lol

@enricosalviano8333 5 лет назад

Shhhh! Do you want to be called terrorists, pedophiles, and sexists?!

@TheFiresloth 4 года назад

The islamic golden age was well over, by this point. This is more West African golden age.

@brianngoma9873 6 лет назад

*HERE COMES DA MONEY*

@Shaymin0 6 лет назад

*IM A BILLIONAIRE*

@napalmblaziken 6 лет назад

Here we go! Money talks.

@eroticnetwork1421 6 лет назад

*MONEY MONEY MONEY ×infinite *

@hecklefietwopup2060 5 лет назад

KNACK 2 BABY

@weresuperbad 9 месяцев назад

I was flipping bricks for Mansa Musa before y’all even became a Type-1 civilization

@Leo_Zanza 6 лет назад

Great series!

@johnyricco1220 6 лет назад

I feel like Extra Credits should do a little summary of the Sahel and its geographical significance between the Sahara to the north and jungles to the south.

@Master13961 6 лет назад

There's always another perspective, another side, another story.

@rajeswaripillai4582 6 лет назад

Love your videos

@HaidarMrad 6 лет назад

I love this chanel and ive watched evry history episode ive learned more from you than from history class REALLY!!!!!

@Lionstar16 6 лет назад

I think these videos should be on school curriculums - I'm learning stuff never even mentioned when I was at school.

@justanotherweirdhumanbeing6862 5 лет назад

Who needs Shaggy Memes? Who need Chuck Norris Memes? I have Mansa Musa Memes ^¬^

@humblehistory141 5 лет назад

4:03 Few people know that this is actually the historically accurate face Mansa Musa made as he distributed gold!

@lucianodebenedictis6014 6 лет назад

The "change of perspective" happened right as I stood up, nudging the screen and making me think it was the auto orientation going nuts. What a beautiful moment of confusion

@AbsolXGuardian 5 лет назад

The wealthiest person ever: gave away his wealth. Purchased things at extraordinary prices. Followed his religion's charity rules (let's ignore the breaking of the economy part and assume it's the thought that counts). Brought prosperity to his empire and was trusted by those under him. Jeff Beezos could learn a lot from him

@timluo5760 6 лет назад

Hey gang, I believe it's pronounced "Nee JER", and not "NY jer". Love the vid and series!

@sjappiyah4071 6 лет назад

Tim Luo “ Nee Jer “ is how it’s pronounced in French I believe. In English it’s supposed to be pronounced in the same manner you pronounce Nigeria (which is named after the river)

@dakimuchi 6 лет назад

Great Video

@abdisamadhirsi6864 Год назад

Netflix needs to make series about mansa musa history.

@guthrumsannouncer794 6 лет назад

Bill gates got nothing on Mansa Musa

@Fishnit 6 лет назад

Oh hey this is the guy from "history of the entire world, I guess"

@parms4760 6 лет назад

I was thinking the same thing when I discovered this channel.

@geoffreyherrick9900 6 лет назад

Larry Gonick?

@XxBeanieBoyxX 5 месяцев назад

I just wanna say that my social studies teacher presented this for us to watch once I saw it the art style looked similar and I realized it was this channel so yeah thanks to my social studies teacher and you (extra history)