How did the Mali Empire make money? Ancient Mali was essentially a trade nation, particularly during the trans-Saharan trade era. A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

In the years following the pilgrimage, European cartographers visited the Empire of Mali numerous times, hoping to produce early maps of the world. Famously, the Catalan Atlas, produced in 1375 ...