/pol/ memes aside, how come West Africa never got into colonization? It was capable several times in history through Mali, Ghana, and Morocco.
A Mali Brazil would have been cool.
/pol/ memes aside, how come West Africa never got into colonization...
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They feared the Amazonian women.
Yeah senpai just go ahead and cross 5000 miles of open ocean in one of these
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Fine- how come they never invented better boats? Morocco would've economically gained from it, and all three empires knew about the existence of Spain.
>Mali Brazil
Did this in EUIV
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>Virtually all that is known of Abu Bakr II is from the account of Chihab al-Umari. Al-Umari visited Cairo after Mansa Musa stopped there during his historic hajj to Mecca, and recorded a conversation between Musa and his host, Abu'l Hasan Ali ibn Amir Habib. According to Musa, Abu Bakr became convinced that he could find the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, and outfitted an expedition of 200 ships to find it. Only one of those ships returned; the captain related that the expedition had come to a "river with a powerful current" in the ocean. The current took most of the fleet away, after which the captain turned back. According to Musa, Abu Bakr was undeterred and launched an even larger expedition with himself as the head, departing with 2,000 vessels for his men and a like number for supplies. He left Musa, his vizier, as his deputy during his absence. The expedition was never heard from again, and Musa became the next emperor.
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To be fair Iberians went into colonization.
Then Brits and French copied them.