Thanks Captivating History! Finally you guys have taken the lead to showcase and shine a spotlight on Black / African History Below are some historical suggestions for your African History Playlist : 1. King Menelik II & The Battle of Adwa (Ethiopia's War of Independence against Italy) 2. Queen Nzinga (resistance against the Portuguese) 3. Toussaint L'ouverture & Jean Jaques Dessalines (Hatian Revolution) 4. Gaspar Yanga (Revolutionary who created the first independent black majority Mexican City) 5. Pharaoh Taharqa (Nubian King - Conqueror of Ancient Egypt & the Assyrians) 6. Samoury Touré (Created an autonomous territory and led a long term French resistance against French Colonial expeditions in West Africa) 7. Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's War of Independence against Great Britain 8. Malik Ambar (King in the Heart of India & Military Strategist who won numerous battles against the Mughal Empire while fending them off for 30 Years) 9. John Horse & the Black Seminoles (leaders of the largest slave revolt in US history leading to the largest migration of slaves to a safe heaven in Mexico . 10. Askia Mohammed (Emperor of the Songhai Empire) 11. Ancient Astronomers & Scholars of Timbuktu (over 800,000 Manuscripts still exist in Timbuktu libraries) 12. Pharaoh Piye (Emperor of Nubia and Egypt) etc etc etc

@jamestalbot1647

11 ай бұрын

Curious why you used the word conquered with Egypt, but colonised with France?

Dude was the ultimate flex god

@bigjake6936

Ай бұрын

After he went broke?

They say he had 12,000slaves. How did he acquire them? Was he the largest individual slave owner of all time?

@juannaym8488

3 ай бұрын

I suppose it were prisoners of war, kidnapped tribespeople, peseants that were unable to pay their taxes and just acquisitions from slave traders Hard to quantify if he had the most. I'd say the current Saudi royals have the most in history, with millions of slaves

@bigjake6936

Ай бұрын

​@@juannaym8488sold to them by? Africans

The problem with Mansa is that his history is mostly verbal. The only writing was from an Arab scholar in his way to mecca.

@bennytorres384

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with Bezos' wealth today is that it's mostly on paper.

@tobilobaokorodudu9594

2 жыл бұрын

There are manuscripts and other such documents from Timbuktu. They were in the news a few years back when there was this whole buzz about radicals wanting to burn history because it somehow didn't "conform to islam" according to their warped logic. There's actually a TON of written African history out there, its just not catalogued and translated; i guess because there's not that much interest from the general public. Its also the issue with archeological research in Africa.

@randomdude1407

2 жыл бұрын

The Tarrikh al Sudan and Tarrikh al Fattash were both written in the 1500-1600s and record him, both books written in West Africa and both able to be ordered on Amazon.

@EfU574

Жыл бұрын

He built all kinds of things according to the people who lived there when asked which of their ancestors built these structures. To add, the verbal history in African culture isn't like European history that changes depending on who won a war.

@territ5126

4 ай бұрын

​@@EfU574how would you know if nothing was even written down? You only know what you've been told.

There are manuscripts and other such documents from Timbuktu. They were in the news a few years back when there was this whole buzz about radicals wanting to burn history because it somehow didn't "conform to islam" according to their warped logic. There's actually a TON of written African history out there, its just not catalogued and translated; i guess because there's not that much interest from the general public. Its also the issue with archeological research in Africa.

@nassauguy48

2 жыл бұрын

The Byzantine Emperor said that Timbuktu was a far more beautiful city than Constantinople. As a gift to Mansa, he sent 1,200 Greek convicts as slaves. Mansa kept some for himself, then distributed the others amongst his noblemen. Here was a case of Black men owning white slaves.

@sharonscott4872

6 ай бұрын

@@nassauguy48 Yes you're absolutely right , that was the way of the world at that time, HERE WE GO !! Yet nothing was like what the yt man decided to do and that is to deem human being down to cattle, you no ! Chattel slavery, right

I wish there was more info on what life was like for the average person in the mali empire walk around the ancient cities of timbuktu and gao, it must've been quite something in its hayday

@skellagyook

2 жыл бұрын

And Djenne (the city).

@legeneral4132

2 жыл бұрын

Read the book "Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire" by Robin Walker. Has some good detailed info there.

@jamestalbot1647

11 ай бұрын

Pretty much like anywhere else at the time… rich being rich and poor being slaves and treated bad

@bigjake6936

Ай бұрын

12000 slaves

Thank you brother really bast history

Im surprised rappers don’t reference him more often

@bennytorres384

2 жыл бұрын

They probably will. Musa hasn't really been mentioned in Western scholarship until relatively recently.

@montbrink4700

2 жыл бұрын

They do all the time

@tumilz_kalashnikov

Жыл бұрын

Listen to my song “Who is he” I mentioned him there 😊

@bigjake6936

Ай бұрын

Seeing as how he had to have others pay for his trip back. Just like rappers. Blow their money on bs trying to flaunt their importance

@jaruto792

Ай бұрын

jay z has mentioned him lol

True business acumen and insight yeah

YESSSSSS MORE AFRICAN HISTORY

He did not start off impoverished . I doubt he ever spent a day in the mines . How many slaves do you think he had. ?

Loved it, subbed.

My guy. It was 2000 ships. With 1000 of food and water

Mansa's main wife could spend money faster than two dudes could shovel it in.

Isn't the capital city Timbuktu 🤔

Alright Ye, now I know.

👑 we gonna do it again! 🩸 line still on ✨kings forever 111

Imagine, being worth 400 Billion and blowing it all halfway through his pilgrimage.

Mansa musa didn’t only get rich off of gold though a lot of his money also came from salt deposits and slavery. And the gold he did have also came from the trade routes he controlled.

@EfU574

Жыл бұрын

The slave trade for an African wasn't based off race, so it's completely different.

@jamestalbot1647

11 ай бұрын

@@EfU574slavery is slavery… all bad

@0senBlade

2 күн бұрын

​@@jamestalbot1647 so is prison labor.

Mansa Musa was blk West African king from Mandinka people.

Ryan Coogler should hire John Boyega to play Mansa Musa.

@capoislamort100

Жыл бұрын

How about Brad Pitt?

not one mention of the thousands of slaves he owned. No, not going to bring up the approximate 12,000 that accompanied him on his Haij?

Whoever owns the Federal reserve (which is a privately owned bank and no affiliation with the federal government) is the richest person to live.

@shah-jahanbaig944

2 жыл бұрын

Rothschild

@mish1990ful

2 жыл бұрын

Lol America is a country Africa is a continent that has most of the world's treasures read more

@Supraking12

Жыл бұрын

No one owns the Federal Reserve

@Goddess_Infinity

3 ай бұрын

Y’all just can’t fathom a rich black man lol 😂 . Mansa actually means King /Emperor. So he King Musa ruled a large Empire and was and is still the single most richest man to ever lived .

@jaruto792

Ай бұрын

@@Goddess_Infinityexactly they can’t stand truth lmaooo ssickkkkk mfs

how do you accidentally kill your mother🤔🤔

uncountable riches were only allowed to Solomon try again

The wealthiest man who ever lived is king solomon

@shirosatsuma4946

Жыл бұрын

@@DuaneCali2023 since when do you need to be a historian to know history

This narrative is so vapidly incorrect

@mansasankaranka1529

2 жыл бұрын

Is not I can attest I’m he’s direct descendant 🙏🏾👑✨

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

@@mansasankaranka1529 Yeah, no one believes you. No cares.

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a common complaint on this channel. But this one is BAD. Those where slaves who were forced to carry all his gold to Mecca, and he crashed the Egyptian economy showing off with his gold. 🙄

@mansasankaranka1529

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBLGL go read the laws of the kouroukan fouga first form of human rights ever wrote in 1255 by the king of kings sundiata before assuming get knowledge please you don’t even know what you talking about . With all respect.

Selling slaves was a lucrative market.

@jabronis33

2 жыл бұрын

There was supposedly a large gold mine in Mali.

@bennytorres384

2 жыл бұрын

The Vikings did hardly nothing but sell slaves. Who was their Mansa Musa?

@legeneral4132

2 жыл бұрын

Selling 2/3rds of the worlds Gold alongside Copper and Ivory were lucrative. Which is where the bulk of the Mali Empire's wealth came from.

Why did you make him so ugly in the thumbnail

So he's just a generous idiot who made horrible financial decisions with his kingdom's money?

@jabbatheslut7406

2 жыл бұрын

He used his money to create universities and the largest library at that time as well as develop other cities such as gao songhai and timbuktu jerez man u need to read more

Julius Caesar would disagree

@kennysmith7055

2 жыл бұрын

He was not real tho

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennysmith7055 Yeah, ok.

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean Augustus Caesar.

So much misinformation here. U can’t separate the human elements from history. And religion is the backbone of human value system, driving their behaviors and fate, and with it history. He wasn’t tolerant of other religions out of choice. It’s mandatory in Islam to only convert WITH the permission of the person. However, u r also mandated to torture that person relentlessly until he/she bends the knee. Do u c?? Logic isn’t present here. Belief systems r. They’re the ones writing the history. People just follow it blindly in most cases. Kids r the easiest. A preteen or teen girl is told that she must convert and marry a Muslim man otherwise her family pays the price, so she accepts. This is considered perfectly innocent in that ideology. Happens to thousands of girls in Indian subcontinent every year till date. There’s also a mandated caste system. It’s very intricate too; between the believers and non-believers (people of the book). The third kind, the untouchables (pagans/polytheists) r mandated to b killed by the believers. But historians don’t recognize that in their narrative. They just pretend like it was for power, but that’s not their main goal. Salvation is. It was required for them to spread the religion and save everyone on the planet. They’re doing a service from their perspective. How is this NOT the most important part of the history. Every event has their religion behind it. No option of conversion for untouchables. It’s like y waste time, send them their way now. Deal with the real problems. Keep the earth clean of their dirty blood. In fact just recently there r cooks getting caught spitting in food of the at untouchable people’s weddings. They believe if the polytheistic people (Hindu/Buddhist) invest parts of the believers miracle will happen and they’ll suddenly realize that they’re actually Muslim. Because, u know, everyone has always been a Muslim. Since the beginning. They just forget or choose greed/power over the real deal. People there’s NO HISTORY without people. And there’s no people without their religion/value or belief system. U don’t get to make false assumptions behind their choices.

@RojaJaneman

2 жыл бұрын

@d0xin the (Fr)auditors Well, there’s no shortages of morons in this world. So, I don’t expect too much 😒

@thelstan7424

2 жыл бұрын

@@RojaJaneman what a cringe comment

@carlodefalco7930

2 жыл бұрын

True

@RojaJaneman

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelstan7424 Not enough to keep u away evidently

@randomdude1407

2 жыл бұрын

Just a reminder that us Mandé have a pre Islamic tradition of caste systems. Nobles, freemen and then slaves and intermixing was forbidden.

Slave holder

Mansa Musa was white, The first drawing of him shows that he was white, google "Map by Angelino Dulcert Date August 1339 Mansa Musa."

@abdullahtgt5438

7 ай бұрын

No, the drawing from Angelino Dulcert for Mansa Musa was for man with African features look at his lips and nose.

I thought Putin was worth closer to $1 trillion?

@scarecrow9474

2 жыл бұрын

Bush was

@pedrogama4585

2 жыл бұрын

...that is probably PROPAGANDA, ok?...who knows?

When you read his story, it kinda is like a black stereotype. He makes a fortune off taxes and slavery but then blows it all by throwing it around, to impress others with some going to charity. He was broke from too much bling.

@quintonmiller8266

Жыл бұрын

This is the most misinformed, goofy comment in the history of youtube. How is it a stereo type? First off he never went broke, he could not if he wanted too. He had trillions, literally trillions of resources. Really unlimited amounts of Gold and salt which was worth more than gold back then. So why did you lie?

@quintonmiller8266

Жыл бұрын

Your comment tells a lot about your warped mind set. Wow!

@quintonmiller8266

Жыл бұрын

@@Leviathan-mj8gi You just brought up some wake weak snow man. You need to research! You spitting commercial garbage. First off they weren't slaves they were Servants, their form of employees. It was a honor and the whole kingdom was paid well and lived fat. Second, any one who knows anything knows Mansa Mysa was the richest. He had a uncountable wealth.

@quintonmiller8266

Жыл бұрын

@@Leviathan-mj8gi Mansa Mysa had unlimited Wealth because if the salt and Gold he had, but that is mined til this day. No one broke Egypt economy by spending. Keep your fake history rich man. He can't touch Mansa! Your are on crack!

@quintonmiller8266

Жыл бұрын

@@Leviathan-mj8gi No resources in Rome! That's why they stoked and conquered to get them. They still not touching Mansa

Never heard of him... Because he didn't make his mark, at least not anywhere that matters.

@legeneral4132

2 жыл бұрын

You've never heard of him because you've not read enough. Not because he didn't make a mark.

@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn

2 жыл бұрын

@@legeneral4132 Nah...

@legeneral4132

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn It was based of his reputation alone that many European explorers were risking their lives trying to travel to Timbuktu for centuries and failing. He was well renowned.

@Eric_Von_Yesselstyn

2 жыл бұрын

@@legeneral4132 Yeah, that's cute.

@randomdude1407

2 жыл бұрын

Yes correct. European scholars, Arab scholars and Africa scholars all recorded him, wrote volumes on him and it was even the reason that France and other explorers made the trip to Timbuktu and West Africa (Sahel) but you Eric haven’t heard so he’s irrelevant lmao…

He was not black west africaan