The Empire of Mali - An Empire of Trade and Faith - Extra History

The Empire of Mali - An Empire of Trade and Faith - Extra History - Part 2

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📜 History of the Empire of Mali: Seeking a meeting with the emperor of the Mali Empire, a man named Ibn Battutah journeyed across the perilous Sahara sands to discover Mali's gold... instead, he found out how Mali blended its Islamic and African cultures.
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@extrahistory 6 жыл бұрын

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. Support us on Patreon! We're actually running a poll this weekend (through 4/23) to determine one of our upcoming Extra History series! patreon.com/extracredits

@en4431 6 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits Your channel is the reason I've gone to Nationals at the history b. Thanks.

@boman. 6 жыл бұрын

can you do ajuuraan empire or adal

@deadcat6212 6 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits PLEASE, DO NOT SKIP MANSA MUSA'S STORY!!!!!11

@Neoplasie1900 6 жыл бұрын

@Ξ SAWIRRO Ξ @Tym the Man They take suggestions for upcoming series from their patreon supporters. So, if you really want to see these events covered by Extra History, consider Patreon.

@daepicadam7358 6 жыл бұрын

Condensing huge history sources into one understandable video is really remarkable. I thank you for your efforts and for making the fascinating History of mankind easier to learn.

@Radiodragonofdoom 6 жыл бұрын

I love that rude tourists are a universal constant.

@Leivve 6 жыл бұрын

Ben, there is a third certainty in life.

@Matthew-Anthony 5 жыл бұрын

@@Leivve The three certainties are: death, taxes, and gravity.

@azelfdaboi5265 5 жыл бұрын

@@Matthew-Anthony there's a 4th certainty, there will always rude tourists

@b3rz3rk3r9 5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Death, Taxes, Empires and assholes mocking your country's culture while visiting.

@MrSuperman957 4 жыл бұрын

Rude, yes. But not entirely. You see, he didn't have a BIG problem with non-muslims but rather with the muslims who were not practicing right. I mean, they were supposed to be Muslims so he was, as a muslim, obviously shocked. But the thing about his rank and yoghurt or whatever, extremely rude. He was the guest so he should be grateful for whatever he receives according to Islam

@swampfox1007 6 жыл бұрын

If I have learned anything from extra credits is it that all people are born with a tag with the initials that they wear on their clothes.

@haroldlolz7964 6 жыл бұрын

lol

@mdaburayhan9101 6 жыл бұрын

Swamp Fox. Actually it's very funny and true

@jacobdunkin1180 6 жыл бұрын

not everybody, just everybody important.

@nathanschmitz2302 6 жыл бұрын

Just think how easy it is to kill a important leader. Just look for thier name tag and shoot them in the head.

@fighterck6241 6 жыл бұрын

Jacob Dunkin ... ahhh, so that's why I was born with a birthmark shaped like my initials on my chest...

@muixc 6 жыл бұрын

"The king of Mali is so rich, he's going on tour to let everyone know. 'Wow. That guy is rich.' Everyone said." -Bill Wurtz

@Animewatcher5953 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@dweeb24 6 күн бұрын

🤣🤣

@Nuinwing 6 жыл бұрын

So.... he laughed at the emperors face and lived to tell about it...thats one merciful ruler for sure(for the time period).

@TheFiresloth 6 жыл бұрын

Well, he was an important guy. Ambassador are not supposed to be dicks, but if they, are, better not cut their heads before being sure you can defeat the country they came from.

@ajjack2322 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battuta was a lone wolf for the most part. Mansa probably would not kill him so as not to look barbaric to the general islamic world.

@tesseract2144 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheFiresloth Yeah, good luck raising a huge army a make them crossing the desert without supply line and with the possibility of neighbors attacking you during the time

@coolbule1238 5 жыл бұрын

@@tesseract2144 but when the army gets cannons and one does not the former only needs 200 men

@jdb9318 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheFiresloth *Laughs in Leonidas*

@DragoniteSpam 6 жыл бұрын

Can we just appreciate for a minute how brave some of these explorers who crossed the desert must have been? Five hundred miles with just one oasis, sending a scout ahead who might not even make it to arrange for water to be brought out to meet the caravan, oof .-.

@DragoniteSpam 6 жыл бұрын

I know, right?

@imverygerby 6 жыл бұрын

Gstrangeman96 Idk seeing someone get blown up is fucked soilders never really change there are always those ones in the front lines and those who are behind them. I'd say the civilian populace was more accustomed to violence back in the day tho

@Zerpderp0 6 жыл бұрын

DragoniteSpam These merchants are hard core

@Wreckonning 6 жыл бұрын

Remember that he was following a path that had been traveled many times before by merchants and travellers, and the systems were already in place for him to be able to make the journey. Let's not completely forget that for the people in the area, this was a way of life and not some grand adventure.

@hi_mom_im_on_youtube 6 жыл бұрын

Gstrangeman96 Peasants were never expected to fight, medieval armies consisted of mercenearies and feudal lords.

@KendrixTermina 6 жыл бұрын

Mali sounds like a pretty cool place to live actually, at least by medieval standards.

@KendrixTermina 6 жыл бұрын

Hence, "BY MEDIEVAL STANDARDS".

@unknowndane4754 6 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think it depended on your standings, for the lower classes I don't think there was that great a difference, for the middle classes I think Mali had it better because of it its lack of external dangerous enemies that threatened their way of living, for the high class... hard to judge because I think it was like most of the medieval world, maybe better if you were involved in the gold trade. They had tons of gold yes, but for them that was a product only really good for export and not that important to them.

@TheFiresloth 6 жыл бұрын

Well, in the 14th century, it was certainly better to be a malian, mughal or italian subject than, a say, french, english or syrian one.

@MisterOrange1 6 жыл бұрын

Yaldabaoth Honestly, even if you were a slave. A slave became a Mansa (his name was Sakura) years before Mansa Musa

@Skadi609 6 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Sakura? Doesn't it mean "cherry blossom" in Japanese?

@twiinapocalyp2e2 6 жыл бұрын

the mental image of an islamic scholar expecting veiled women only to find them walking around the palace topless is kinda hilarious

@DaJalster28 6 жыл бұрын

twiinapocalyp2e2 imagine him trying to report the "harlot" just to be told by the guards that she is the Emperor's daughter.

@RayMKlll 5 жыл бұрын

DaJalster28 And that meant she could dress as she pleased? Or am I seeing this wrong?

@theghostofspookwagen4715 5 жыл бұрын

Yup. Going around topless just wasn't an issue with them, for Battutah and his ilk on the other hand he would've fainted at the horror (and arousal).

@hisexcellencypresidentofre4118 5 жыл бұрын

Gosh u guys funny. Lol

@nathanielclaw2841 5 жыл бұрын

@@RayMKlll differences in what each culture finds to be moral and respectable. Same goes for native americans in south america, they dressed even less

@nicholasnelson8641 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battutah. Makes Marco Polo look like Dora the explorer.

@faizahtahsin6377 4 жыл бұрын

And now he has his own series

@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832 4 жыл бұрын

@@faizahtahsin6377 that they canceled...

@wnd9434 4 жыл бұрын

What wrong with Dora the Explorer

@faizahtahsin6377 4 жыл бұрын

@@wnd9434 shes fake lmao

@JanBork 4 жыл бұрын

@@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832 did they?!?!

@Wolf6119 6 жыл бұрын

RIP Sulking Caravan Dude

@KasumiRINA 3 жыл бұрын

*F*

@Sebastian-mh7ej 3 жыл бұрын

@@KasumiRINA F

@detriadh 3 жыл бұрын

@silverking2181 5 ай бұрын

@Udontkno7 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad there's finally some more mainstream channels that talk about African history. Africa has tons of assumptions that are negative, and I'm glad it's history is shown in a positive light.

@semereabraham6639 6 жыл бұрын

aromantic Yes, thank you, finally some people interested in actual history, not racial supremacy...

@kayzsosa1414 6 жыл бұрын

Semere Abraham word

@srvaudiau 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battuta deserves his own series!

@ArkadiBolschek 6 жыл бұрын

Seconded!

@adnanilyas6368 6 жыл бұрын

@alsyrriad 6 жыл бұрын

I don't like him honestly. Kind of stuck up if you ask me.

@srvaudiau 6 жыл бұрын

Dylan Sepasyar he was. But Ibn Battuta had one of the most epic road trips ever.

@mxsdrago 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battuta’s Bizarre Adventure: Gold Dust Crusader

@asiboe 6 жыл бұрын

shipwrecked, kidnapped, and detained... why does it sound like now he's going to die of something very stupid after surviving all the previous?

@edatercharles5566 6 жыл бұрын

he died of old age in his city Tangiers, now he has a mausoleum in there

@timothymclean 6 жыл бұрын

He lived long enough to publish a book, so...if it wasn't death by falling manuscript, it would be outside the scope of this series.

@Healermain15 6 жыл бұрын

Upon completing his manuscript, he had a heart attack, tripped over his chair, and accidentally pierced his own heart with his writing quill. With his last breath, he managed to send his manuscript to the printers.

@nomkir 6 жыл бұрын

No that's also dramatic. He died a natural death.

@agenthurricane4839 6 жыл бұрын

Upon visiting home, he accidentally forgot how to breathe.

@brianngoma9873 6 жыл бұрын

As much as I really want to hear about Mansa Musa, I'm glad that you're stalling that episode to focus on the lesser known parts of an already underappreciated empire. Keep up the good work EC!

@mestre12 6 жыл бұрын

There are many stories about Masamusa, but, the one i like the most is: He gave so much gold in he travels, that, in some places, gold got major inflation.

@chrispo7610 6 жыл бұрын

gold was basically useless for a short period there. richest person ever

@andrewlentner 6 жыл бұрын

In some areas it was so bad that the city's economy crashed

@nakenmil 6 жыл бұрын

That's why they used cowry shells back home. Much rarer and easier to control the circulation of.

@LuccianoBartolini 6 жыл бұрын

Basically, he was the Muslim equivalent of Salomon.

@BigHenFor 6 жыл бұрын

When supply exceeds demand prices fall, so the price of gold would have deflated if Musamansa flooded the market with his generosity.

@rickard7031 4 жыл бұрын

Does this entire episode count as a SIDE TRIP?

@abthedragon4921 4 жыл бұрын

Good one

@andreas6334 3 жыл бұрын

Loser

@tomuch4u969 3 жыл бұрын

@@andreas6334 ur lame 😒

@ryanred1525 2 жыл бұрын

@@andreas6334 ur lame😒

@Mar1aHass4n 2 жыл бұрын

@@andreas6334 ur lame😒

@duchessnoor 6 жыл бұрын

BUT I WOULD WALK 500 MILES AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE...

@mykomatos5445 6 жыл бұрын

JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED A THOUSAND MILES TO GO OFF 'BOUT YOUR MORES

@weldonwin 6 жыл бұрын

Dada Da Da, Dada Da Da, Dadala Dadala Dadala Dadala dada...

@Achillez098 6 жыл бұрын

DA DA DA DA! DA DA DA DA! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!

@sarabe2130 6 жыл бұрын

O sheet whaddup it GUNTHRUM *bew bew bew beeeww*

@myohmy9000 6 жыл бұрын

Oh look, it's *Æthelstan*

@FromNothing 6 жыл бұрын

This was amazing. I honestly didn't expect as much detail or elegance as people never usually offer it when talking about African history but you did it justice. Looking forward to the next episode!

@joelgottfried5849 5 жыл бұрын

Hey i'm also a fan of your channel are you willing to do dome focus of the kush empire

@abthedragon4921 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, didn't expect to find you here. Then again I probably should have, given the premise of your channel.

@shockhouser3171 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jabari

@sircoloniser5454 Жыл бұрын

This is a side trip to the Ibn battuta series

@CitanulsPumpkin 6 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly, Mali culture turns out remarkably similar to Viking culture in this one area. "Just the one god? Sure, right. I'll have just the one ale too while I'm at it."

@threaruscamuwundra7417 6 жыл бұрын

Awh man, this is a great episode but Ibn Battutah could have gotten an entire serie based on his travels. Would have been an awesome topic

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 жыл бұрын

He could get maybe some one off episode for the rest of his travels some day.

@atsekaleb7 4 жыл бұрын

Well good news for you

@gabemobley3851 4 жыл бұрын

Yep he got a full series

@WeaselLikeMan 4 жыл бұрын

good news

@kingsumca4370 4 жыл бұрын

@@gabemobley3851 where can I find the series?

@dr.zoidberg8666 6 жыл бұрын

In the final exam of our History of the Middle East class, a friend of mine accidentally called Ibn Battuta "Ibn Batooty" & I will never forget him because of that. Ibn Batooty: Truly a great man.

@randomperson4695 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Vitalis94 6 жыл бұрын

As for religious syncretism, most of converting societies took the same path as Mali did. We date Christianization of many European states at the moment their kings did it. But in reality, most of population would remain pagan for few more centuries. First to convert were the rulers and traders. Later on, the capital. Then various towns and cities. Last to convert were the peasants in the villages, and that's why folk traditions come from rural places. The process of conversion to another religion went amongst the same lines as described in this video. To convince people, some of the local, pagan celebrations were disguised as Christian. The origins of the date we celebrate Christmas and Easter are winter and solar solaces, while annual celebrations of polytheistic gods were turned into the celebration of various Catholic Saints. It took many centuries for pagan belives to be entirely purged, and even then, many originally pagan traditions are celebrated to this day.

@redwallzyl 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.! The amount of ignorance shown by people is awful. They tend to know nothing about the actull processes involved and so project their own biases on it.

@mustipunyaemail 6 жыл бұрын

Christmas is from pagan.

@theghosthero6173 6 жыл бұрын

mpye yeah it's the Scandinavian Yule

@deangelourqhart7614 6 жыл бұрын

And Yule is Babylonian for little child.

@Vitalis94 6 жыл бұрын

To say that Christmas is a direct "descendant" of Yule only would be an understatement - while Yule had influenced the outlook of Christmas in Germanic countries, other Europeans had their own pagan traditions related to winter solace. For example, Romans had Saturnalia, not to mention that the festival of Sol Invictus took place exactly on December 25th. Also, Slavs had their Koleda/Gody, Iranians had Yalda, etc...

@FeyTheBin 4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, that lad Battuta, finally with his own series. Just gonna watch this one again as I wait for more episodes.

@dreadhead5719 4 жыл бұрын

Fey that’s why I went back here.

@josesphaturaya488 4 жыл бұрын

It's the son of Battuta, not Battuta himself.

@JcoleMc 2 жыл бұрын

They should do an video of Ibn battuta's trip to Swalhi coast

@BobHerzog1962 6 жыл бұрын

Let's take a guess. Gifting gold was considered bad form in a country that had so much in abudance and didn't even use it as currency.

@dcbanacek2 6 жыл бұрын

Good point. So you've just come out of the desert and are being received by the local government, what would be more important to that person? Food and water or some shiny metal you can't eat?

@gameboyhotline3712 6 жыл бұрын

dcbanacek2 and good food at that pudding and honey sounds like it was expensive in those times and when your traveling 2 months through sands and sun all you’ve been eating is tried and salted meat and idk like some old fruit. Mali showed him kindness, education and great wealth but to him he saw it as laziness and rudeness.

@ArkadiBolschek 6 жыл бұрын

Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised. You probably nailed it on the head.

@hiddenhist 6 жыл бұрын

BobHerzog1962 the hell should they just give away their gold for no reason? Should America just start gifting away money to visitors now?

@BobHerzog1962 6 жыл бұрын

Well actually you do gift certain visitors either money or stuff that is a lot of money. In return certain officials from the US recieve the same courtesey when they visit other countries. It's diplomatic ettiquette. Also notice that travelers were not quiet as common as today in western society. And even those you don't want to give money you spend a lot of money on to get them out again or to hinder them comeing in. Ibn Battutah also wasn't just anyone. He was a well known scholar, friend of Kings and basically had somewhat the status of an ambassador. And lastley one has to accept that other cultures and other times had different custdoms. And it usually works when it is a thing everyone does. Because if every scholar of certain esteem is gifted valueables then yes you have to give out some money but your scholars will also recieve money when they travel and thus you don't have to support their travels as much. It would like, if the US and other nations agree that instead of their home University paying travel costs for scientific conferences the nation it is held in would do so. As long as everyone does so and noone has an relative to their size overly large amount of conferences it works. Back in those times it meant scholars had to carry less valuables with them and thus were less likely to be robbed of them.

@nahheio 4 жыл бұрын

I’m here on a side trip

@zacharysnyder2520 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battutah probbably lived one of the most interesting lives in history.

@FnKtelevision 6 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: there is a mall in Dubai named after and themed around this man

@Abd121 6 жыл бұрын

been there, almost everything from imported/made in China. was very disappointed!...

@omarbell4579 6 жыл бұрын

FnKDeadBeat He's as iconic in the Islamic world as Marco Polo in the west.

@nakenmil 6 жыл бұрын

+Abd So like how Las Vegas puts up random replicas of European and Egyptian landmarks, then.

@FnKtelevision 6 жыл бұрын

+Abd yeah it's not the most impressive mall in dubai. mostly went there for the IMax screen when I lived there

@mxsdrago 6 жыл бұрын

Only just realized that the different countries in the mall represent his travels. Holy shit.

@SlimTony 6 жыл бұрын

Man, the mali empire sounds like a really nice place.

@frederickkeeslar1761 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that you guys have been covering African history. I studied some African history during college, and it never gets as much attention as it should. Just as a suggestion, you guys should look at the city-states along the east coast of Africa and the kingdom of Madagascar. Unfortunately, most of the city-states were destroyed by the Portuguese, but they still have a very interesting history. There's also Great Zimbabwe and the kingdoms of Kush, which are also very fascinating empires.

@HaloLibrarian 6 жыл бұрын

My EU4 Mali campaign is because of these videos

@Nihilvidz 6 жыл бұрын

Are you going for the achievement?

@melfice999 6 жыл бұрын

Considering the time frame, shouldn't you rather go for a Crusader Kings 2?

@davidking6242 6 жыл бұрын

Crusader kings 2 would be more appropriate. I'm doing a series right now and I just conquered morroco and Iberia as the malians

@manelgf1 6 жыл бұрын

I recommend colonising Brazil one you've got a hold of the western coast. It's actually at a stone's throw! (Watch out for those Spanish and Portuguese though...)

@Carewolf 6 жыл бұрын

Did that in EU3.. Fun times. Only annoying thing is that to get better tech progression I had to westernize, there was no option to have closer ties to the muslim world to get their tech speed. But yes pre-scambling Africa, and getting a head start on overseas colonies is key to victory.

@GeneralLuigiTBC 6 жыл бұрын

Ibn Battutah's reaction to the syncretic form of Islam practiced in the Mali Empire touches on a conundrum in religion that I've seen come up time and again as far as spreading Abrahamic religions is concerned: If the religion you seek to spread forbids something that is an integral part of the culture you seek to spread it to, how do you approach spreading your religion? Do you insist that the locals abandon the parts of their culture that your religion forbids, or do you leave those parts of their culture alone? On the one hand, trying to put an end to practices that have endured for centuries will almost certainly make it harder to attract converts--and will likely make the locals hostile toward you. On the other hand, if you allow the locals to keep their sinful customs, can you truly say that your proselytizing is helping them rather than hurting them?

@Mechabang 6 жыл бұрын

General Luigi Well put.

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 жыл бұрын

The ideal is to explain why the new practices are impotant and if you can’t maybe they are not.

@jowiemonster 6 жыл бұрын

I would say you leave the old traditions alone and i most cases they will slowly die out on there own als de new religion expands and becomes more and more of daily life.

@johnmccarron7066 6 жыл бұрын

Speaking as a Christian...yes, it does. The Ten Commandments still apply, a lot of the Abrahamic Code technically still applies (Christ said he wasn't there to overthrow the law, but to fulfill it), and Jesus left a list of dos and don'ts. And, depending on which sect of Christianity you follow, you may find a simple or fairly stringent code of living that can be quite 'arbitrary' to some folks.

@KnuxTube 6 жыл бұрын

As an Abrahamic believer, I may try to take a stab at this well put question. Islam, for example, can often adapt to a culture without losing its religious foundation. Take a look at the Moors in Spain. When the North Africans invaded Moorish Spain, originally to help the Muslims against the Catholics, they were shocked. They deemed what they saw as heresy and blasphemy, all the art and intermingling, sexual freedom and high ranks of Jews and Christians.Though they were not only of the same faith but the same ethnic heritage, Moorish and Berber, the cultural gap within the same religion was staggering. So it's certainly possible for culture and religion not to *bend* to each other but complement each other in a way that adds to both without taking away the good in both.

@isadoracostahamsi163 6 жыл бұрын

I LOVE African history. Please do more of them. We get enough Europe in school.

@Talleyhoooo 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@auliafajar9346 4 жыл бұрын

Who came back here after the newest Ibn Battuta series?

@TrueZero2 4 жыл бұрын

You know that moment where you think 'THAT'S where I heard the name from'? That was what I had with Ibn Battuta.

@mattzhang4854 6 жыл бұрын

ok but yogurt and honey is awesome

@mattzhang4854 6 жыл бұрын

so do bread cakes, sour curds, and beef

@azelfdaboi5265 5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@junior4900 4 жыл бұрын

Lieutenant Terry Jeffords of Brooklyn's 99th Precinct agrees

@NikkiBikki 4 жыл бұрын

Random, I'm eating that now...

@jubileeYAVEL 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr!

@abdur1996 4 жыл бұрын

This is soo much cooler to watch after the Ibn Batuta series! You guys are a treasure!

@degenerate3288 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone else think that Ibn might have some plot armour

@Loremaster85 6 жыл бұрын

It's easy to have plot armour when you're the one writing the story about your own travels.

@nomad20122 6 жыл бұрын

Osiris ibn is not his first name, ibn means son and this was his nickname son of batuta not actual name

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 жыл бұрын

Is he reliable? I recall one traveler who was not and tried to google if this was him but apparently only his account of going to Bulgaria was unreliable?

@Abd121 6 жыл бұрын

he was a religious scholar, His way of seeing and documenting his surroundings would've probably been very different from that of a real historian!

@8xMorladumx8 6 жыл бұрын

+ 1 to you Loremaster xD

@TheNekoGentleman 6 жыл бұрын

... You managed to make me love the history of my country and my religion. Me, a man that used to despise both. Kudos.

@antoniolewis1016 6 жыл бұрын

Hooray!

@thepbg8453 6 жыл бұрын

Out of curiosity why would you despise it?

@assalane 6 жыл бұрын

I am also Malian in origin. I apreciate the highlight too, but there are still aspects of the religions I despise, be it Islamic or pagan

@echoambiance4470 6 жыл бұрын

Which country might i ask?

@assalane 6 жыл бұрын

Echo Ambiance Mali

@zaaimi 6 жыл бұрын

Moroccan here, I am simply happy you mention morocco and Ibn Battuta. Great explorer, and his writing still stands today as an open window to the islamic world during that period.

@mostafabellabiad3030 6 жыл бұрын

This is a wonderful day. Finally I can see a icon of Moroccan history in Extra Credits, and it's Ibn Battuta, the famous traveller ! I'm so glad and I hope you will cover more about this man who saw so much things in the world. Great work as always guys !

@MisterOrange1 6 жыл бұрын

Love how everyone is respectful in the comment section.

@isitokaytoeatquick-wittedb2953 4 жыл бұрын

I came back again to watch this after finishing the Ibn Battuta series, and after seeing his numerous other travels, the Battuta here in Mali that I previously thought obnoxious, is actually really just expectant. During his other trips, the rulers always give him big welcoming and parting gifts, always riches, gold, slaves, houses, horses, so he probably expect the emperor of Mali who has so many gold will be even more extravagant in gift giving, moreso that Battuta is coming to Mali by the order of the Moroccan sultan, hence making him some sort of ambassador.

@benzur3503 6 жыл бұрын

i love the way you acknowledge and embrace the unreliability of the narrator and explain it from multipile angles so much

@beknown63 4 жыл бұрын

Did someone say SIDE TRIP?

@JunkPhuJP 6 жыл бұрын

It will be interesting to see how the region Mali inhabits converted to a majority Islamic populace over the centuries, and slowly left some of the traditional African beliefs. Also, the gold security reminds me a lot about the Chinese and Mongolian iron grip on silk and silk worms. Also, friendly reminder to everyone that we need to keep discussing what happened to the 2000+ ship expedition that disappeared without a trace haha.

@mustipunyaemail 6 жыл бұрын

Most likely those 2000 ships had landed in carribian.

@braniacc 6 жыл бұрын

It was Walpole.

@JubioHDX 11 ай бұрын

@@mustipunyaemail more likely than that is that they died in a storm at sea or got lost. I feel like there would be at least slight evidence of 2000+ ships full of west africans landing in the new world when columbus and the rest of the europeans actually arrived in the carribbean less than 2 centuries later, even genetic evidence would make it obvious if they truly did make landfall, since the natives of the americas are closest in relation to asians due to how their ancentors arrived from the land bridge in the north rather than being so close to africans due to such a substantial influx of them at such a recent date.

@fbaez7132 6 жыл бұрын

Man, an Ibn Battutah EH series would be perfect

@ArkadiBolschek 6 жыл бұрын

I know, right?

@collinsagyeman6131 4 жыл бұрын

WE HAVE ONE NOW!!!!!!

@PavarottiAardvark 6 жыл бұрын

Bread, beef, and sour curds....the gift was a Cheeseburger!

@talknight2 6 жыл бұрын

I can haz cheezburger?

@tg10tg Жыл бұрын

It actually sounds like a nice place to live in that century at least

@duderzguy1236 6 жыл бұрын

This channel needs more subs

@eventyraren 6 жыл бұрын

DuderzGuy 123 I also think they shold change there name sens extra credit is no longer the only show here.

@whatareyougay2826 6 жыл бұрын

DuderzGuy 123 I need more sub's.

@davidheitzenrater9027 6 жыл бұрын

You guys should really do a series on Ibn Battutah's travels. He honestly puts Marco Polo to shame.

@PelegdolevWackyycool 4 жыл бұрын

Who else is here in 2020 after the bin bahtutah series

@xenos12500 6 жыл бұрын

Mali sounds like a fairly good place to live compared to other empires and kingdoms at the time.

@GarthTheMighty 6 жыл бұрын

That camel is adorable. And may or may not be Billy Batson.

@egully6755 6 жыл бұрын

I would love to see one of these exclusively on Ibn Battutah

@ArkadiBolschek 6 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

@a.a.6789 6 жыл бұрын

oh man! ibn batuta was badass and freaking hilarious I love it!! he'd make a great protag in a movie! he probably became wiser with age,but I can't blame him for his reactions,cultural shock is too real!😂😂 this channel is amasing keep up the good work❤❤

@connerymilne6466 6 жыл бұрын

The Mali Empire, aka real world Wakanda

@Argantys 6 жыл бұрын

Wakanda forever!

@tonytruong861 6 жыл бұрын

MALI FOREVER =D

@AnasDaif 6 жыл бұрын

Minus everything and I sjust a piece of buildings in middle of desert .

@C.O.R.E_Supermacy 6 жыл бұрын

The Mali culture seems so intriguing! I'd love to learn more about their history.

@iamseamonkey6688 4 жыл бұрын

At least we finally get an ibn battuta series now

@chowyee5049 6 жыл бұрын

Will you ever do a series on the Ethiopian Empire?

@davidking6242 6 жыл бұрын

Chow Yee Lee definatley should. Focus it on the medieval Christian abbysinian empire specifically that's my favourite with aksum as second fav in Ethiopia

@Jan-rq8mo 6 жыл бұрын

depends on the patrions

@JohnnyLodge2 6 жыл бұрын

At least a stand alone on lalibella

@gameboyhotline3712 6 жыл бұрын

JohnnyLodge2 I’d rather see one on Halie or a series on the era of princes

@mxsdrago 6 жыл бұрын

t h e y n e v e r g o t E t h i o p i a

@YourTypicalMental 6 жыл бұрын

Man, the Empire of Mali sounds so cool.

@unklemoose 6 жыл бұрын

Mansa Musa is one of my favorite historic figures. A man so wealthy that just his VISITING Egypt on his pilgrimage almost caused the Egyptian economy to collapse. Amazing. Would also be interested in seeing if you cover the "drum" style of trading they practiced at that time.

@AS-jy6pf 4 жыл бұрын

Last part of ibn battuta episode brought me here

@tomuch4u969 4 жыл бұрын

Who’s here after the ibn battuta series?

@Based-wn9jg 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone

@nmnmbj 6 жыл бұрын

Its nice to hear about the Berber for once a lot of the time you see the written off just as Arabs not their own ethnic group.

@Captainflake99 6 жыл бұрын

I have seen a video about a prince from west Africa making a pilgrimage to Mecca and he had billions in gold. On his travels he brought and spent so much in Egypt that gold was devalued nearly overnight and it would take a century before it returned to its value before he turned up

@alfreddupont1214 6 жыл бұрын

Not a century, but a decade

@talknight2 6 жыл бұрын

Mansa Musa

@Leivve 6 жыл бұрын

And there are still some people that think Africans didn't have nations or cultures.

@unknowndane4754 6 жыл бұрын

Even worse there are the people that think of Africa as some sort of unified thing

@Leivve 6 жыл бұрын

Well yeah, they're all black right? That means they're all the same right, cause that's totally how it works.

@kayzsosa1414 6 жыл бұрын

Leivve word

@supermanboy1255 6 жыл бұрын

Leivve Race and culture are separate and Ethiopian is not a South African

@Leivve 6 жыл бұрын

Wrong comment dude.

@shawnheatherly 6 жыл бұрын

Battutah sounds like the worst sort of guest, and yet we've got to be thankful for his account letting us know all this.

@TheFiresloth 6 жыл бұрын

He sounds like the jerks who posts their holidays adventures on facebook. "I went to this place, and I was a total dick to the hotel staff. Wazaaaah !"

@ozmantheterrible9837 5 жыл бұрын

he's more important than most Kings. a fucking jere, but also a hero

@robthebob4586 Жыл бұрын

Not exactly, sure is was a bit ungrateful at times but he brought a lot more good than bad.

@olamideolanrewaju4005 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. You have history videos of African Empires. You're awesome. Thanks a lot.

@underwoodessays6936 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone watching this after the end of the Ibn Battutah seris?

@mtnrth4080 4 жыл бұрын

Me!

@zaclegoattack 4 жыл бұрын

@celeen7476 4 жыл бұрын

@musicaldoge9412 6 жыл бұрын

I just wanna say two things. First this is spectacular what you guys do by teaching people history throw such simple drawings, and second how it helps me in an ApWH class to study easier by just simply watching one of your guys is videos. I would also like to ask for a recommendation, if okay, that you can make an episode on the Olmec empire, after this one of course. Once again thanks, and I hope the team at Extra Credits is doing well. Have a good day!

@kirbyjaeger2506 6 жыл бұрын

I like how they take music from the cultures that they're looking at and play it as their outro. It really shows an attention to detail.

@everfree4175 6 жыл бұрын

In my honest opinion Mali Empire was the best Muslim nation of its time.

@gameboyhotline3712 6 жыл бұрын

I just wish it wasn’t so isolated from the world by the Sahara

@Jarethenator 5 жыл бұрын

@@gameboyhotline3712 If it wasn't as isolated it probably wouldn't have flourished the way that it did. Hence why the other empires had to deal with so much 𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 I mean, even if a place is so full of gold and all a big, sandy, army-killing desert really puts one off from going and messing with them in any major way... Not to mention if you're in closer proximity to other cultures, you're more likely to adopt them rather than develop and maintain your own unique one...

@pongers5895 3 жыл бұрын

I mean ibn batuta was a judge he judged

@Cometstarlight 6 жыл бұрын

Le gasp, a married woman talking to another man in friendship?! The scandal!

@PongoXBongo 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe she was discussing sandwich recipes?

@Cometstarlight 6 жыл бұрын

You never know~

@merrittanimation7721 6 жыл бұрын

PongoXBongo The horror! Next she'll tell him her secret sauce!

@waleedalam7927 6 жыл бұрын

19th century England was this uptight too you know.

@Cometstarlight 6 жыл бұрын

Not even close to this extent. Nice try though.

@cosmicwatermelon3927 6 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite series so far, trade is so fascinating! I wish I could see the journey of all my consumer products in full.

@dialaskisel5929 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome episode, I love the format. Telling the story of an empire and it's practices from the written accounts of an outsider traveling through their land has an unmistakable air of adventure

@badhombre7247 6 жыл бұрын

This channel is getting better and better after each episode.

@kayzsosa1414 6 жыл бұрын

A African history video not saturated with racism and afrocentrism I thought these were only myths

@coolbule1238 5 жыл бұрын

dark ambience

@blakemoore122 5 жыл бұрын

The comments seem fairly civil as well!!! Its so nice!!!

@Palestine4Ever169 4 жыл бұрын

kayz sosa Afrocentric don’t want their west African history They want North Africans and others history

@jamestodd1104 4 жыл бұрын

There’s just no real records. A lot is speculation.

@Crimson_07 4 жыл бұрын

And a year later we'll be learning Ibn Battutah's story...

@3ipolarBear 6 жыл бұрын

though you were gonna mention the berbers were battuttas compatriots, given he was also a berber

@benrennella5335 6 жыл бұрын

This series is excellently timed I have just started studying the history of west African kingdoms in my history class, thank you for making this I love your work.

@Sondrebol 6 жыл бұрын

I had hoped Timbucktu would come up. What little i know of the Songhai empire (and to some extent, Mali) is because of that city.

@leavemealoneplease583 2 жыл бұрын

Mali sounds like a lovely place to live

@javierrozasgomez2060 5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations for your work. I'm a Spanish English student and I find your videos very interesting and out of the stereotype we figure out when we think of African History apart from Egyptians. Very instructive also to learn common and not so common words to improve my Englisj vocabulary. Thank you for your your work and I hope you post more historical videos soon. Saludos desde Madrid

@Westkane11 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making these excellent history videos, they are very informative and entertaining at the same time :)

@gooberingo 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, for 13th century standarts mali seems like paradise

@aliabbasnaqvi347 4 жыл бұрын

Well this was a fun side trip

@taylorhancock5834 6 жыл бұрын

In World History, we just recently learned about Ibn Battutah, but only acknowledged his existence. I'm glad that I actually do know his importance now. Thanks for your videos guys, they make history extremely interesting!

@oumardiallo7701 5 жыл бұрын

i'm from the current Republic of Mali , really thank you

@humo89 6 жыл бұрын

Love it! Awesome work Habibi!

@buddyltd 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, I thought this was going to be interesting, but this is waaay more interesting than I imagined it would be! Awesome topic!

@WildBillCox13 6 жыл бұрын

Your team does a great job bringing history alive.

@drowningindanile7184 2 жыл бұрын

the fact at 8:14 is hilarious the Emperor's just like: is this dude fr?

@ghostbrain198 5 жыл бұрын

This video inspired me to get In Batuttah's book. I can't wait to see how much of a tourist this guy acts like across the world.

@TrixAreForKicks 6 жыл бұрын

Mali seemse like a beautufull place. Would have ben amazing to witness with my own eyes.

@aperson5135 6 жыл бұрын

You know... I was looking at your first videos and I just realized its been over 3 years apparently since I started watching since I started watching during the warring states videos... damn I have to say I have honestly really enjoyed theise videos and I look forward to them every week I cant wait for the next video

@TheCreepypro 6 жыл бұрын

how utterly fascinating I don't think I have ever heard this discussed in any great detail anywhere nor do I hold any knowledge of it I am really going to enjoy this

@joinmarch76 6 жыл бұрын

You know, it's times like this that make me glad I subscribed to this channel. I would have likely never heard of the Mali Empire hadn't it been for you guys; and it's a damn good thing I did. This empire was amazing for many things; perhaps my favorite aspects include its progressiveness for its time, and its religious freedom. You ask me, America could learn a thing or two from this... But let's not turn this into a diatribe on my grievances with Westboro Baptists roaming free; no, this is about the Mali Empire. And while this may be a roundabout way of saying it, I'm happy I learned of its majesty.

@guyinreallife6035 6 жыл бұрын

see, now, damn it, i say this about literally every Extra Credits series: why isnt this a movie?

@nqinadlamini 6 жыл бұрын

This episode was really hilarious. I especially like the spirit ghost being measured. LOL

@Haydn8oR 6 жыл бұрын

I've just recently (if a moth or two is recent) found this channle, and really like it. But the extra history is what really brought me here, and i have to say, its really opened my mind to more than jist world war one or two, more than just the wars in our history, and more on individual people like Ned Kelly, Mary Secole, or John Snow, and I have to say. Good job, few channels, movies, and tv shows get my interested in diffrent things that went on in our history on earth, really can't wait for more to come, either it be an episode on Anne Frank, or the events leading up to the American revolution I'll be happy to watch it, and I'm going to recommend this to my history teacher, and anyone else who is interested in history, heck even my uncle. So thank you, and keep the videos up.