The "Roman Roads" in an African Kingdom 

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Taming nature in mama Africa is a tough mission. I didnt know they had a police force patrolling and watching thie roads very. And 😂 its good Mr Bigot and Dr Kangz are common characters now i loce how you debunk them both with the facts. You just now them trolls will say nonsense like this.

This channel is such a wealth of knowledge in a world that increasingly doesn't care about accurate or truth.

The asante roads were roads that was similar to roads today with maintenance as well as security and tax collectors for traders , horses as well as carriages were used on these roads and the roads connected to the main trading metropolises of the sudan and north africa , and European s and other arab states its was the life line of the empire in fact salaga a trading town controlled by the asante empire was known as the Timbuktu of the south and just add the roads were not dirty as well as the clean up workers local citizens were required to make sure there towns were cleaned. There’s historical documentation that confirms that the Asante believed dirty areas attracted ill spirits

In the process of reading "The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast" and it mentions the roads that the Ashante built for trade.

I was just researching about Ghana and then I suddenly get a notification for this video. A good Omen

Another interesting example why the Ashanti Empire was one of the most advanced states in Africa. 🇬🇭

The more I know about different civilizations and cultures around the world the more similar patterns I find among them. Continue with this great work!

Pre Columbus America's had huge long roads connecting even bigger cities!

Fascinating stuff. And awesome to learn more about the Ashanti. For any major building project, it takes a lot of resources (both to build an maintain). It makes sense that the Ashanti had political/military motives that led to road building. Even religious motivations also contribute towards permanent structures (consider the Cathedrals in Europe or the Mosques in West Africa). In places like the US we take for granted our road system, but even that had political motivations behind them. During the Cold War, the President (I believe it was Reagan) convinced Congress to put millions of dollars into building the freeway system that connects states (maybe even giving funding to states, I’m not 100% sure) in case the Soviets dropped Nukes on US cities and they needed to evacuate. Some critics say that what they proposed wouldn’t have made that much of a difference in the event of a nuclear attack, but it allowed the US government to have a reliable way to move between states, as well as contributing to state economies. Now we are used to it, but we didn’t always have such an interconnected and extensive road network.

Great video! Many people don't know this, but a lot of west African kingdoms mainly prioritized paving there innermost cities instead of their roads. For example, Ile Ife and Benin city, both had paved streets all around their city using potsherd pavement. I am puzzled why the Akan people didn't adopt this technique as well for use in Kumasi. I'm quite sure they had their reasons though.

Are you going to talk about the city of ilé ifé and archaeological discovery as it is a paved road I also thought I understood that it had clay pipes but I did not find a photo on About this discovery

10:14 Elizabeth Street, in what is now Melbourne (Naarm) in Australia, had pot holes so deep that during a heavy storm, an entire bullock train drowned outside the post office. IIRC it was sometime between 1840 and 1850

Another very interesting insight into West African history.

Another fire video as always.

Dirt roads repair themselves after every rain here, I guess the same is everywhere!!! Thank you m8, that was awesome!!!!

Roads are every where in subsaharan africa I'm from the south the kalanga, shona and venda have roads all made of stone in their cities extremely narrow for the ruling ellites and extremely large for the commoners seen as places for commerce, the bakoni had roads that would stretch connecting city to city made of stone the difference between the venda, shona and kalanga roads they never connected city to city the roads where only found within the city.

This video would really help any TTRP campaign based on the Wagadu Chronicles.

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Loving this channel, greetings from Rome. :)

This is a universal practice in that of course not all African roads would have been paved in stone because that would have expensive. First you needed to pay someones to find the right stones, then a stone-cutter, patrols against ferocious animal attacks, masons for the actual building of the roads. Flattened dirt roads by oxen would have been cheaper to produce. African nations, such as in Mali, Ghana, Dahomey would have had it better financially to just have had the main city roads paved, considering that the various wars and mosque constructions would have been more important to focus on. Besides, as stated in the previous video on earth based houses, the infrastructures were already high grade quality, road infrastructure comes second.

Thanks, this is an interesting video. I can imagine it would be difficult to maintain roads through a jungle. I live in a semi arid area and there aren't many large plants.

Excellent job!

i love this video

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The oldest paved road was actually in Egypt.

Yeah The Romans sure got around.

14:31 is the guy with the feather plume hat wearing armour?

that freeman 1844 source, can i have the link to that

Are any of the Ashanti roads still in use like the Roman roads, maybe paved over, but still the same route used by cars instead of by foot?

Good evening I love the episode and your show and I would really like to know what do you think about the new Netflix the documentary TV show about Queen Cleopatra?

As much as i appreciate edification you talk as though you havent been to the continent. Book scholarship can only educate you so far

After the shame that was Woman King, I hope someone talks with you before the next movie about pre-colonial Africa. You show both the bad and the good sides and keep the interesting things at the forefront.

Why don't you create a Telegram Channel??

Roads necessarily exist wherever there is wheeled transport. They never predate it.