WEST AFRICAN KINGDOMS MALI 1200-1450 A.D. *WEALTH BUILT ON: GOLD TRADE *ISLAM spread.

WEST AFRICAN KINGDOMSMALI 1200-1450 A.D.

*WEALTH BUILT ON:

GOLD TRADE

*ISLAM spread

MANSA MUSA RULED FROM 1312-1332

*Brought GLORY to Mali

*RICHEST king in history

*Gave away so much gold that it attracted EUROPEAN attention to Africa

To protect his gold, killed his mine workers and the mine was never found

MANSA MUSA

DEVOUT MUSLIM Ordered MOSQUES to be built in Timbuktu

Center of LEARNING and TRADEPower and influence decline by 1400 AD

IBN BATTUTA1305-1377 ADMuslim traveler and historian from

Tangier North Africatraveled the world for over 27 years,

visiting most countries of the Islamic World

Wrote a Book -Travels in Asia and Africaprovides information of the Muslim

world during that time