Great African Kingdoms we don't learn about

[Arishok]

Here are some of the great Kingdoms in Africa that we don't learn about in school:

1. The Malian Empire was home to the richest man of all time (no exaggeration) Mansa Musa who had so much gold he crashed Cairo's market. But did you also know it was the second largest empire during its time behind the Mongol Empire?

2. The Great Mosque of DJenne, it's not a kingdom but it is a great architectural site built entirely out of adobe. It is also now a World Heritage Site.

3. The Great Zimbabwe, although it's nothing but ruins now, the intricacy of the stone walls still baffle archaeologist to this day about how these people were able to build such high walls without melding them together. (Of course because their black Africans).

4. The Walls of Benin were built around 800 AD to about the 1400s, it is regarded as the world's largest man-made structure (lenthwise) and the largest earthwork in the world.

Are there any great African Kingdoms/African achievements that we need to know?

 

[Arishok]

I will even add how African art inspired Picasso to "create" cubism.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

There are too many great African civilizations to name. We could literally go for hours.

People should start with the history of Egypt and Ethiopia and move on from there if they want to understand the scope of African civilizations that existed in antiquity.

 

[Arishok]

True, this thread is just to get people talking and give them introductions to these achievements/kingdoms. I've only learned a slice of great African history and not that same ole same ole.

 

[88m3]

True, this thread is just to get people talking and give them introductions to these achievements/kingdoms. I've only learned a slice of great African history and not that same ole same ole.

I like Africa, thank you.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

they continue to obscure and usurp our history from us

 

[observe]

There were more beyond Egypt, it's just no Greeks were daring enough to cross thru the Sahara, so they couldn't record it in history..

 

[Captain Crunch]

Name some other empires with architecture or relics still standing.

 

[Mook]

can someone explain to me how these countries survive if its all desert?

 

[Patriarch]

We... Marvel at the state of Ottoman , and turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can

 

[Just like bruddas]

Here are some of the great Kingdoms in Africa that we don't learn about in school:

1. The Malian Empire was home to the richest man of all time (no exaggeration) Mansa Musa who had so much gold he crashed Cairo's market. But did you also know it was the second largest empire during its time behind the Mongol Empire?

2. The Great Mosque of DJenne, it's not a kingdom but it is a great architectural site built entirely out of adobe. It is also now a World Heritage Site.

3. The Great Zimbabwe, although it's nothing but ruins now, the intricacy of the stone walls still baffle archaeologist to this day about how these people were able to build such high walls without melding them together. (Of course because their black Africans).

4. The Walls of Benin were built around 800 AD to about the 1400s, it is regarded as the world's largest man-made structure (lenthwise) and the largest earthwork in the world.

Are there any great African Kingdoms/African achievements that we need to know?

funny they look a lot like European castles, but wasnt they built first

 

[Madvillain]

I off the top remember learning about Mali, Songhai, Nubia and Ghana in school

 

[PoPimp84]

funny they look a lot like European castles, but wasnt they built first

Yup same as those Ethiopian castles that predate those Medieval castles in Europe

 

[Just like bruddas]

Yup same as those Ethiopian castles that predate those Medieval castles in Europe

so we was saving them from dying for living and eating in their own feces we taught them how to build shyt.

fukking savages

 

[PoPimp84]

so we was saving them from dying for living and eating in their own feces we taught them how to build shyt.

fukking savages

Lol its a dirty dirty game. We as a people gotta put the work in and spread this knowledge to our youth to break this cycle we are in