Crash Course: World History

Season 1 Episode 16: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16

John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to Islam, visits from Ibn Battuta, trade, beautiful women, trade, some impressive architecture, and several empires. John not only covers the West African Malian Empire, which is the one Mansa Musa ruled, but he also discusses the Ghanian Empire and even gets over to East Africa as well to discuss the trade-based city-states of Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Zanzibar. In addition to all this, John considers emigrating to Canada.

Genre:

Talk, Documentary

Seasons:

2

Episodes:

72

Cast:

John Green

Quality:

HD

Duration:

10 min

First Air:

2012

Rating:

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