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The Empire of Mali - An Empire of Trade and Faith - Extra History - #2
🕑 Added 2018-04-20 17:31:00 +0000 UTC Ibn Battutah wrote a book called "The Travels," producing the only eyewitness account of the Mali Empire. So today we’re going to follow him, letting his journey teach us about how trade built the realm.
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Bill Lemmond
Thank you for pointing out Ibn Batuta's faults, as well. But now I'm thinking of something Solomon said: "Everyone sees their own way as right, ..." So we are all prone to miss our own faults. I think that's one reason we need each other. Solomon also said "As iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another."
Joo-Hwan Jun
One could say the steak joke in this video is well done.
Calvin McClory
Will Dan start narrating with his real voice? Will someone get confused over flags? Will James ascend to a higher plan of conciseness? Find out next time, On EHZ.
Calvin McClory
Isn't IB the current record holder for most interesting man?
Tomer Ashkari
I loved this video it was great!!!
Martin Verran
Well, anything can happen in Alternate History Fiction.
Brett
Okay. I was just confused because they mention his journey in this episode without any real context of what it...was. I'm familiar with it, so I was worried I was getting my wires crossed and just forgetting a mention last week, but I went back and checked and he didn't get any a single word. It's hard for me to say, but I'd worry that a newcomer wouldn't get why that journey prompted Ibn Battutah to visit just from this.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
They said they're doing that in the next episode. Probably because Ibn Battutah is a good character to explain the trans-Saharan trade, and that's important to understanding Mansa Musa. So they're building an idea instead of going chronologically. It's an interesting narrative choice.
Brett
Is it just me, or did this episode just completely skip ahead of Mansa Musa's famous journey and just assume the audience knows what it was about? A viewer completely new to the period isn't going to have the context for that simply from the these first two episodes.
Jason Youngberg
It sounds like Battutah expected to get rich just by showing up. That doesn't sound very holy.
Jared Adams
What if they did and it vanished like the English colony?
Martin Verran
Alternate History Idea: what if, instead of Vanishing without a Trace, Emperor Abubakri II and his Fleet Successfully Navigated the Atlantic Ocean and Eventually Landed at OTL Roanoake Island, where they Established a Colony? Civ IV Technologies ~ Archery *Ping!* “Do not Throw the Arrow which will Return against you.” ~ Kurdish Proverb
