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	Mali Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The empire was founded by the king Sundiata Keita, and was famous for the generosity and wealth of one of his successors, Mansa Kankan Musa I, and for the fabled wealth of the city of Timbuktu.
		Mansa Wali Keita undertook the Hajj, expanded the empire's borders and significantly increased agricultural production, but his brothers Ouati Keita (r.
		Sundiata's grandnephew, Mansa Kankan Musa I or Musa I, ruled over the Mali Empire while it was the source of almost half the Old World's gold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mali_Empire (823 words)

	Mansa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansa is a Mandinka word meaning "king of kings." It is particularly associated with the Keita dynasty of the Mali Empire, which dominated West Africa in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
		Powers of the mansa included the right to dispense justice and to monopolize trade, particularly in gold.
		Other notable mansas include his son Wali Keita and the powerful Kankan Musa I, whose hajj helped define a new direction for the Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansa (144 words)

	KAM Ancient Mali
		Mansa Musa was a devout Muslim who built magnificent mosques all throughout the Mali sphere of influence.
		Mansa Musa's fame as well as that of his state was known far and wide.
		Under Mansa Musa's patronage, vast libraries were built and "madrasas" (Islamic universities) were endowed; Timbuctu became a meeting-place of the finest poets, scholars, and artists of Africa and the Middle East.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Classroom/9912/ancientmali.html (580 words)

	PLAYAHATA.COM
		Mansa Musa's fame and wealth as well as that of his state was known far and wide, even to Europe who at the time was a relatively unknown region in world affairs.
		Mansa Musa ruled an empire that was one of the largest in the world at that time.
		The Gao mosque, built of burnt bricks, which had not, until then, been used as a material for building in West Africa, was still being admired as late as the 17th century.
	www.playahata.com /pages/bhfigures/bhfigures6.html (1100 words)

	Early African Empires and their Global Connections
		Mansa Musa annexed the cities of Gao and TIMBUKTU to MALI and greatly expanded the Empire.
		Mansa Musa was a Muslim; since most of his subjects were not, he allowed diverse religious practices to flourish during his reign.
		MANSA SULAYMAN: Ruler of Mali from 1336 to 1358 and MANSA MUSA's brother.
	www.globaled.org /nyworld/materials/african3.html (1627 words)

	Mansa Masu: Songhai Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mansa Musa was an important Malian king from 1312 to 1337 expanding the Mali influence over the Niger city-states of Timbuktu, Gao, and Djenne.
		Mansa Musa (Mansa meaning emperor or sultan and Musa meaning Moses), the grandson of one of Sundiata’s sisters, is often referred to as "The Black Moses" (Jeffries and Moss 1997).
		His armies pushed the borders of Mali from the Atlantic coast in the west beyond the cities of Timbuktu and Gao in the east -- and from the salt mines of Taghaza in the north to the gold mines of Wangar in the south (Jeffries and Moss 1997).
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/mansa.htm (847 words)

	King Mansa Musa of Mali, Africa
		When Mansa Musa came to power, Mali already had firm control of the trade routes to the southern lands of gold and the northern lands of salt.
		This was a big political success, and made Mansa Musa one of the greatest statesmen in the history of Africa.
		Mansa Musa opened courts of law for Muslims, alongside the old courts of law for those who were not Muslims.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/mansamusa.html (561 words)

	Mansa Musa
		It was in this climate that Mansa Musa was born.
		Mansa Musa died around 1337, leaving the throne to his son Maghan I. About this time the empire began to unravel; Songhai, a province in the east, left the empire.
		Mansa Maghan spent excessive amounts of Mali's wealth, leaving a weakened empire at his death around 1341 to his uncle Mansa Sulayman.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b1musamansu.htm (1334 words)

	Chronology of Mande History 2
		Mansa Oule, sovereign of Mande ; he subjugates the Songhaï of Gao.
		Mansa Kankou (“Kankan”) Moussa, pious Moslem sovereign of Mali.
		Sonni Ali Ber, son of Sonni Souleymane Dama, sovereign of Songhaï in Gao from 1464 to 1492.
	perso.orange.fr /laurent.berte/Html/chronol2english.htm (642 words)

	::::::: Kurá Hulanda Museum ::: West African Kingdoms ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mansa Musa's brother, Abubakar, is said to have equipped an armada of several hundred ships.
		Mansa Musa's successors were not capable to hold the large empire together.
		Devastating droughts, feuding amongst vassals and the invasion of the Songhay caused the decline and fall of the empire.
	www.kurahulanda.com /virtual_guide/west_african_kingdoms.html (2507 words)

	Mansa Musa: The Golden King from CobblestoneOnline.net
		Mansa Kankan Musa I, as he was officially known, came to the throne of Mali in 1307 or 1312.
		Al-Umari recorded that Mansa Musa described his kingdom as "a year's journey in length." This was an exaggeration, but another writer described Mali as "square, its length being four months journey and its width likewise."
		Mansa Musa is said to have described copper as his most important trade item.
	www.cobblestoneonline.net /wsp/mansa-musa.html (1058 words)

	Christopher Columbus and the Great Age of Discovery HOME
		Mansa Musa, the great African ruler of the empire of Mali, was responsible for the fame of African gold.
		Mansa Musa's reign marked the height of the power of the Mali Empire with its capital at Niane.
		In 1324 Mansa Musa decided to go on a pilgrimage of his own since it was one of the five pillars of Islam.
	www.corndancer.com /vox/clio/discovery/disc_arch005.html (766 words)

	Baxter's EduNET - Time Machine
		The greatest and most famous of all of Mali's kings was Mansa Musa, who ruled from 1307 to his death in 1332.
		Mansa Musa, a follower of Islam, built many large and beautiful mosques throughout the kingdom, and, using Arabic script, increased the level of literacy in his realm.
		The subject city of Gao rebelled in 1375 under the Sonni ("king") Suleiman-Mar. Around 1400, Gao was strong enough to raid the Mali capital itself, and about 50 years later became the centre of the new Songhai Empire, which now became the most powerful state in West Africa.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/timemachine/700wa.html (423 words)

	Civilizations in Africa: Mali
		Mansa Musa was a devout Muslim who built magnificent mosques all throughout the Mali sphere of influence; his gold-laden pilgrimage to Mecca made him an historical figure even in European history writing.
		In 1430, the Tuareg Berbers in the north seized much of Mali's territory, including the city of Timbuctu, and the Mossi kingdom to the south a decade later seized much of Mali's southern territories.
		Finally, the kingdom of Gao, which had been subjugated to Mali under Mansa Musa, gave rise to a Songhay kingdom that finally eclipsed the magnificent power of Mali.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/MALI.HTM (565 words)

	CZECH REPUBLIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mansa Musa was a devout Muslim who built magnificent mosques all throughout the Mali sphere of influence; his gold-laden pilgrimage to Mecca made him a historical figure even in European history writing.
		It was under Mansa Musa that Timbuctu became one of the major cultural centers not only of Africa but of the center of the world.
		Under Mansa Musa's patronage, vast libraries were built and madrasas(Islamic universities) were endowed; Timbuctu became a meeting place of the finest poets, scholars, and artists of Africa and the Middle-East.
	tps.dpi.state.nc.us /connectafrica/mali/history.html (440 words)

	Islam in West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mansa Musa was, on the other hand, a devout Muslim and is considered to be the real architect of the Mali Empire.
		Mansa (Emperor) Musa came to power in 1312 and his fame reached beyond the Sudan, North Africa and spread up to Europe.
		Mansa Musa ruled from 1312 to 1337 and in 1324-25 he made his famous pilgrimage to Makkah [Hajj].
	members.tripod.com /worldupdates/islamintheworld/id26.htm (3657 words)

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		They also traveled as far east as Gao, the capital of the Songhai, as far south as the Niger bend, and as far north as the Sahara desert.
		The dictator, who had the title of Mansa, was the sole secular and religious leader of his people, though not he did not enjoy the same power as Egyptian Pharaohs did.
		Women were allowed freedom and even the Mansa still believed in the "spirit of the land." The basic peasant farmer believed in a "spirit of the land" to whom he prayed so that he would get good crops.
	www.textfiles.com /reports/ACE/mali.txt (577 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Mansa Musa's pilgrimage was immortalized in a map of Africa contained in the Catalan World Atlas of 1375.
		As you view the map with your students, you might explain that Guinea (Mansa Musa is referred to as the Lord of the Negroes of Guinea) was actually the coastal region of West Africa where many of the gold mines were located.
		While Mansa Musa's pilgrimage opened the eyes of Europeans and Middle Easterners to the wealth of Mali, it also convinced the ruler that he should make the cities of his realm a showplace of the Islamic world.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=503 (1035 words)

	IslamiCity Forum: MANSA MUSA The pious African Sultan
		Mansa Moussa was a devout Muslim who built magnificent mosques throughout his empire in order to spread the influences of Islam.
		Mansa Moussa expanded Mali's influence across Africa by bringing more lands under the empire's control, including the city of Timbuktu, and by enclosing a large portion of the western Sudan within a single system of trade and law.
		Mansa Moussa brought the Mali Empire to the attention of the rest of the Muslim world with his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
	www.islamicity.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3036&get=last (1522 words)

	Western and Central Sudan, 1000-1400 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1324–25, the ruler Mansa Musa brings the wealth of the Mali empire to the attention of Europe, North Africa, and Arabia when he completes a pilgrimage to Mecca.
		Gao becomes an important trading center of the Songhai state due to its favorable geographic location, bordering both the Sudan and Sahel and enjoying access to the Niger River.
		Gao and the western part of Songhai state are brought within the boundaries of Mali during the fourteenth century.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/07/sfw/ht07sfw.htm (876 words)

	Lupe Zavala's World History Project
		Mansa Musa is best known for his 3,500-mile journey in 1324 to Mecca.
		The lesson is not accurate on the date Mansa Musa succeeded to the throne; the date they state is 1307.
		This is the most important fact about Mansa Musa, which is stated in all resources dealing with the Mali Empire and this king, Mansa Musa.
	www.csun.edu /~gz55020/History.html (1419 words)

	Songhai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Songhai, West African empire, centred on the largest bend of the Niger River, that reached its zenith in the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Mali's renown spread to the Islamic and European worlds when its Kankans (ruler) Mansa Musa, made a spectacular pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city...
		The decline of Mali was rapid, although the kings continued to rule until 1645.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Songhai&pg=1&grp=art (264 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mansa Musa was the most famous muslim leader of Mali.
		Mansa Musa was a great mitilary leader who work on the royal control of the gold-salt trade, he putted every rebellion down.
		Most of the Mansa musa's successors lacked his ablitily to govern, as well the gold trade shifted east once again an a new goldfield developed.
	students.ithsnyc.org /leoino/p4.html (564 words)

	NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
		Mansa Musa is the most remembered of the kings of Mali.
		Mansa Musa is probably best known as the ruler who firmly established the Islamic religion in Mali along with peace, order, trade and commerce.
		Mansa Musa started the practice of sending students to Morocco for studies and he laid the foundation for what later became the city of Timbuktu, the commercial and educational center of the western Sudan (Boahen 1966:17–22).
	www.cr.nps.gov /ethnography/aah/AAheritage/histContextsA.htm (3552 words)

	Mansa Musa, An African Builder - Habeeb Salloum
		When Mansa Musa took over the helm of state, he added the important towns of Timbuktu and Gao to his kingdom.
		Known as the country's architect, Mansa Musa welded a nation, out of a huge mosaic of peoples, whose leaders for 150 years dominated the affairs of West Africa.
		Above all, Mansa Musa's famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 spread Mali's renown and prestige, not only in the Islamic countries but to the far corners of medieval Europe.
	www.africanevents.com /Essay-Habeeb-MansaMusa.htm (1062 words)

	Mansa Musa
		Mansa Musa is mostly remembered for his extravagant hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca with, according to the Arab historian al-Umari, 100 camel-loads of gold, each weighing 300 lbs.; 500 slaves, each carrying a 4 lb.
		Mansa Musa brought back with him an Arabic library, religious scholars, and most importantly the Muslim architect al-Sahili, who built the great mosques at Gao and Timbuktu and a royal palace.
		Mansa Musa ruled for 25 years, bringing prosperity and stability to Mali and expanding the empire he inherited.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/mansamusa.php (556 words)

	Nguni Imports Presents: Virtual Africa--History of Mali
		Rather, the story of the Songhay empire begins with Mansa Musa, ruler of the empire of Mali from 1307 to 1333.
		Mansa Musa, ruler of the powerful empire of Mali, was its most aggressive and expansionist ruler.
		By the early 1400s, Gao was, without question, the center of trade in west Africa.
	www.nguni.com /culture/virtualafrica/mali/historyc.html (1387 words)

	Mali - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Mali was the core area of the great empires of the western Sudan: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, with centres of trade, learning, and culture in such cities as Djenné, Timbuktu, and Gao.
		The empire of Mali originated in the 11th century, but its period of greatness began under Sundiata, who ruled from around 1235 to 1255, and reached its peak in the early 14th century under Mansa Musa, who extended the empire until it reached from the Atlantic coast to east of Gao.
		Its place was taken by the Songhai Empire of Gao, whose great kings were Sunni Ali, from 1464 to 1492, and Askia Muhammad, from 1493 to 1528.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761568071___15/Mali.html (1024 words)

	Mali
		The story goes that Mali was suffering a fearful drought when a visitor told the king, Mansa Barmandana, that the drought would break if he converted to Islam.
		The mansa’s responsible for Mali's rise to a powerful state is Sundiata Keita.
		As Mansa, Sundiata, established a cultural exchange system whereby the sons and daughters would spend time in foreign courts, promoting understanding and a better chance of peace among nations.
	www.geocities.com /dethomas01/Mali.htm (612 words)

	Mali Empire and Djenne Figures
		What distinguished the empires of West Africa, particularly Mali and later Songhay, was their ability to centralize political and military power while allowing the local rulers to maintain their identities along side Islam.
		The wealth of the Mali Empire is illustrated by the Mali emperor Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.
		Using established building techniques, architects and builders increased the size of the mosques to accommodate a larger Muslim population and underscore the importance of Islam.
	www.nmafa.si.edu /exhibits/resources/mali (958 words)

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