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Mansa Musa, the most powerful king in Mali’s history, is dead. He leaves behind an empire that covers half a million square miles, and he leaves a son who will only rule for four years. 

EDIT: I formally release you from the burden of having to write a comment that does correctly point out "7:45 says 1930s." Our scripts have this written down as the 1370s. :) --Belinda
 

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The Empire of Mali - The Cracks Begin to Show - Extra History - #4

After Mansa Musa's death, the rivers of gold started drying up, and bitterness snaked out from the fringes of the vast Mali Empire. Wars were coming... EDIT: 7:45 says 1930s. Our scripts have this written down as the 1370s. :) Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Subscribe for new episodes every week! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Thanks for participating in this week's discussion! We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://goo.gl/HkzwQh Contribute community subtitles to Extra Credits: http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg&tab=2 Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ___________ Would you like James to speak at your school or organization? For info, contact us at: contact@extra-credits.net ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

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Martin Verran

Civilization IV Technologies ~ Mining *Ping!* “The Man who Moves a Mountain begins by Carrying away small Stones.” ~ Confucius

Justin M.

Quick thing: @7:45 you said "in the 1930's" Mali survived as an entity until the 20th century?

Jessica Cheeri

I think he meant 1390s and just transposed it. That'd be about the right time for Gao

Jon

I noticed that too. It's a shame because it's probably too late to fix the audio.

schuyler

How many ep will ther be 4, 5, or 6 ?

ExtraCredits

In general our main EH series are always six episodes long with a Lies episode. Occasionally, 5.

Sara Samaletdin

Did you set up the Discovery themed suggestions with this end in the hope you could do Portugal explorers? Because that would be interesting.

Christina Maria Jessen

Seems like it's about time for Mansa Musa to come and suggest a trade. Easily the strongest AI in Civ 4 with tech trading on and even without it, he's one of the top ones. Stupid, broken rich people.

Kaigo

Yes i would love to see a "portugal " extra history . Of course if you guys want to

Justin M.

Look... you build an empire, its gonna have cracks - that's just what happens

Brett

It was a disease well-known in Mali at the time and well-attested in the Arab histories that we know about the Mali Empire from - the opening of trade routes spread it through the empire and it was always fatal. Mansa Djata II died from it in 1374. I honestly can't find *any* reference to the cause of Mansa Maghan's death - just the fact that he only ruled for 4 years. I'm curious to know where they found a link between him and sleeping sickness (or foul play as they imply), or if they got him and Mansa Djata II confused (he was another financially ruinous ruler after all).

schuyler

how many ep will ther be for mali 4 ,5 or 6 will ther be a one off?