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	Mali Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mali Empire (1235-1546) was an Islamic Empire of the Mandinka, a Mandé people in West Africa, dating from the 13th to 16th centuries.
		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.
		The famous Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire in the years 1352 and 1353, and his detailed account is an important first-hand written description of this empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mali_Empire (823 words)

	Mali encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Mali politics and officials, Mali History. Travel to Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Mali Empire was an Islamic Empire of the Mandinka, a Mandé people in West Africa, dating from the 14th to 16th centuries.
		The empire was founded by the king, or Mansa, Sundiata Keita, who was famous for the generosity and wealth of Mansa Kankan Musa I, and for the fabled wealth of the city of Timbuktu.
		The famous Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire in the years 1352 and 1353, and his account is an important first-hand written description of this empire.
	www.maliiworld.com /wiki-Empire_of_Mali (751 words)

	Mansa Musa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansa Musa depicted holding a gold nugget from a 1395 map of North Africa and Europe
		Mansa Kankan Musa I or Mansa Musa or The Lion of Mali was a 14th century king of the Mali Empire.
		Mansa Musa was the grand-nephew of the founder of the Mali's Empire, Sundiata Keita, and ruled over Mali while it was the source of almost half the world's gold.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansa_Musa (329 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)

	Civilizations in Africa: Mali
		As with Ghana, Mali was built off of the monopolization of the trade routes from western and southern Africa to eastern and northern Africa.
		Mali was not a true empire, but rather the center of a sphere of influence.
		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.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/MALI.HTM (565 words)

	WKRAC - ARTWorld / West Africa - Mali
		Today, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, though present day Mali evolved from a culturally rich empire of the 13th and 14th centuries.
		Mali was centrally located between the trade routes of the sources of salt in the Sahara Desert and the gold mines of West Africa.
		Mansa Kankan Musa I (Mansa Musa) was the grandson of Sundiata Keita.
	www.wkrac.org /artworld/mali/culture/people.html (2137 words)

	History Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.historychannel.com /classroom/unesco/timbuktu/mansamoussa.html (644 words)

	Mansa Musa, An African Builder - Habeeb Salloum
		The Empire of Mali was founded by the great warrior-diplomat, Sundiata, who reigned from 1230-55 A.D., on the Mandinka plateau between the Niger and Senegal Rivers.
		Mali had been nominally Muslim before his time but under his rule Islam became well established in the Royal Court and was installed as the official state religion.
		At Musa's death in 1337, Mali's influence extended from the Atlantic in the west to Hausaland in the east.
	www.africanevents.com /Essay-Habeeb-MansaMusa.htm (1062 words)

	Baxter's EduNET - Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mali was ruled by Mansa Sunjata (sometimes spelled Sundiata) from 1230 to 1255.
		The army of Mali was based on armoured cavalry, similar to the knights in Europe.
		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.
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/timemachine/700wa.html (423 words)

	Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire
		The shaded portion indicates the empire of Mali in the fourteenth century.
		Musa was not the first emperor of Mali to embrace Islam; unlike the Soninke and the Soso, Mande royalty adopted the religion relatively early.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/mali/hd_mali.htm (458 words)

	Mansa Masu: Songhai Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		Mali was now a power of more than local or even regional significance.
		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)

	Mali Empire and Djenne Figures
		At its peak (1200-1300), the Mali Empire covered an area that encompasses significant portions of the present-day country of Mali, southern and western Mauritania and Senegal.
		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.
	africa.si.edu /exhibits/resources/mali (958 words)

	mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In fact, one of the lasting impressions that Mali created in the minds of other cultures and states throughout the Mediterranean and in Europe was the perception of the immense wealth of West Africa.
		Mansa Musa (Mansa is a title) ruled a century later, 1312-1337, and raised Mali to its peak in terms of territorial power, economic importance and even more significantly, intellectual achievement.
		Musa built up the city of Timbuktu as the center of the Mali Empire; it was to became an important Islamic center as well.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist151/mali.htm (1984 words)

	WorldNet Virginia: Mali - History
		Mali began as a small Malinke kingdom around the upper areas of the Niger River.
		The Mali empire was based on outlying areas--even small kingdoms--pledging allegiance to Mali and giving annual tribute in the form of rice, millet, lances, and arrows.
		The empire of Mali reached in zenith in the fourteenth century but its power and fame depended greatly on the personal power of the ruler.
	mali.pwnet.org /history/history_mali_empire.htm (810 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> pt:1270 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ancient city of Ashkelon is captured from the crusader states and utterly destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars, who goes so far as to fill in its important harbor, leaving the site desolate and the city never to be rebuilt.
		The city of Tabriz, in present-day Iran, is made capital of the Mongol Ilkhanate empire (approximate date).
		Mansa Wali Keita, second mansa of the Mali Empire
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/pt:1270 (579 words)

	History : By Region : Africa : Early Empires : Mali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A History of Ancient Mali - The history, religion and culture of the kingdom of the Empire of Mali.
		Mali, Ancient Crossroads of Africa - A brief history of the Empire of Mali, and the role of Sundjiata and Mansa Musa.
		Kingdom of Mali - A translation of Al-Umari's description of the visit to Cairo in 1324 by the King of Mali, Mansa Musa.
	www.webguest.com /Society/History/By_Region/Africa/Early_Empires/Mali (199 words)

	mali empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Mali Empire was a Muslim Empire in West Africa in the 14th century...
		The empire of Mali, which dated from the early thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century, rose out...
		Mali empire Trading empire that flourished in West Africa in the 13thandndash;16th centuries.
	www.worldinfocountries.com /mali/mali-empire (320 words)

	MrDonn.org - KINGDOM OF MALI lessons and activities for K-12 teachers and students
		Mali began as one of the districts in the Kingdom of Ghana.
		Having never left Mali, Mansa Musa really did not know that the appearance of his people was anything out of the ordinary in the Muslim world.
		Mansa Musa was a very smart man. To reduce the likelihood of a takeover, he had brought with him on his trip most of the powerful people in his kingdom.
	africa.mrdonn.org /mali.html (1022 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Mali Empire
		Mali was regarded one of the world's chief gold suppliers; Mali had conquered some of the gold-producing countries to the south and acquired more gold by trade.
		Mali's most famous ruler was MANSA MUSA (1312-1337), who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and was widely admired for his wealth and generosity.
		Mali's function as gold supplier of Morocco was greatly damaged by the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to West Africa's coast (15th century).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/mali.html (228 words)

	GRADE 10: Africa by 1500
		The Kingdom of Mali existed between 1200 and 1500 and was one of the richest empires in Africa.
		The most famous of all, after Sundiata, was his grandson, Mansa Kankan Musa I. Musa, who was in power from 1312, to 1337 was not the first Muslim ruler of Mali, but he became famous as a result of his hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy city of Islam, in 1324 and 1325.
		Mali finally collapsed with the rise of the Kingdom of Songhai, but no empire ever had the power and wealth the Kingdom of Mali had once held.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/classroom/pages/projects/grade10/lesson3/07-mali.htm (944 words)

	Musa Mansa Biography / Biography of Musa Mansa Biography
		Mansa Musa (died 1337), king of the Mali empire in West Africa, is known mostly for his fabulous pilgrimage to Mecca and for his promotion of unity and prosperity within Mali.
		Internal commerce and agriculture flourished, and the order and prosperity found in Mali in 1352-1353 by the famous Arab traveler Ibn Battuta were largely attributable to Musa's enlightened leadership earlier in the century.
		On his death in 1337 Musa was succeeded by his son, Mansa Maghan (reigned 1337-1341), who had ruled during Musa's visit to Mecca and Cairo.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-musa-mansa (574 words)

	Notes: Chapter 5, West Africa
		Mali's greatest ruler, Mansa Musa, came to the throne in 1307.
		Mansa Musa died in 1332, and the kings who followed him could not hold Mali's vast lands.
		Under Manus Musa's rule Mali was divided into ______________ and some regions were allowed to remain independent and long as their rulers pledged their __________ and a portion of their _________________to Mali.
	adrianastandard.8k.com /ClassPage/Notes/Ch5.htm (3120 words)

	African Timelines Part II: African Empires
		The Mali Empire, centered on the upper reaches of the Sénégal and Niger rivers, was the second and most extensive of the three great West African empires..
		The Mali Empire served as a model of statecraft for later kingdoms long after its decline in the 15th and 16th centuries..
		Under Mansa Musa, diplomatic relations with Tunis and Egypt were opened, and Muslim scholars and artisans brought into to the empire; and Mali appeared on the maps of Europe.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm (3258 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		This is when Mali became known as “the Land of Gold.” In fact, it has been estimated that it would soon supply two thirds of the gold used for European coins and artifacts.
		Mansa Musa's pilgrimage was immortalized in a map of Africa contained in the Catalan World Atlas of 1375.
		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.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=512 (1080 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mali emerged against the back-drop of a declining of Ghana under the dynamic leadership of Sundiata of the Keita clan.
		Mansa Suleiman claims that he had not even realised Ibn Battuta was in town and hastily makes amends for the previous omissions in hospitality.
		But to the opposite of Ghana, I think Mali was really able to have more territory beyond some of the area Ghana went to, like Taghaza, the salt gulf, that was all part of the empire of Mali.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/4chapter3.shtml (1357 words)

	Mali Resourse Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For 300 years, kings from the Keita clan ruled Mali, which was a small state or kingdom.
		Mansa Musa ruled Mali in 1300 and doubled its size.
		In Mali, the griots were political advisors to the king and memorized all of the history, which they told through stories, poetry, music, and dance.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /KingsParkES/technology/mali/malihis.htm (331 words)

	Mali Empire
		Mali exhibit of 15th-20th century art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Friday, Nov. 30, 2001.
		"Mali - The Mandinka Empire: Sundiata: The Hungering Lion." Ghana, Mali, Songhay: the Western Sudan.
		Mansa Musa : African King of Gold : A Unit of Study for Grades 7-9.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /specialprojects/africa_access/AA_Research_Projects/Mali/mali_empire.htm (659 words)

	Mansa Musa
		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.
		The Mali Empire extended from the Atlantic coast in the west to Songhai far down the Niger bend to the east: from the salt mines of Taghaza in the north to the legendary gold mines of Wangara in the south.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/mansamusa.php (556 words)

	Picture perfect beginning for Farrakhan World Friendship Tour III
		Mali's most important religious leaders---men and women, shaykhs and imams---lined the landing field, along with Sada Samake, Minister of Territorial Administration (Interior), to greet Min.
		Stating that he was happy to honor his promise to visit Mali, the Nation of Islam leader revealed to students at the national Islamic Culture Center, that there is a deeper reason why Mali is the first stop on what may be---insha-Allah (God Willing)---his greatest world tour yet.
		"Mali has played a great role in the history of the struggle of the Black Man and the history of the struggle of Islam," the Minister told the students, some of whom cheered when his words were translated by Ali Baghdadi into Arabic.
	worldfriendshiptour.noi.org /mali.html (1179 words)

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