The Eye of Africa- The Mali Empire Before 14th Century, multitudinous empires developed and collapsed on the land of West Africa, but Mali was absolutely the only one that attracted the both European and Islamic world to discover the amaze of Western-Africa. The reason why Mali was firmly insisted as one of the most indigenous and potent empires in history for all time is because of its magisterial civilization, cogitation, religion, and trade system in its wide span dominion. Mali Empire’s advantageous development in transportation and ecology system brought itself bonanza, besides, trade also played a pivotal role throughout its heyday during 14th century. Both these factors aided Mali to a greater extent Empire, and modeled its irreplaceable …show more content…
“Mali emerged against the back-drop of a declining of Ghana under the dynamic leadership of Sundiata of the Keita clan.” (West African Kingdoms - Mali.) Before Sundiata acquired the authority, the draft of gold trade and excavation was born and implement. After the substitution of Ghana, Mali had established a mightier kingdom by conquering and integrating of minute states, then accumulated into a broader region. The Mali followed the former transaction system that the Ghana Empire applied, but the Mali did several crucial improvements instead, which also led them to its apex and glory. “In the later Medieval period, West Africa may have been producing almost two-thirds of the world's supply of gold!” (Ibn Battuta's Trip: Chapter 12 Journey to West Africa 1351 - 1353.) From this quotation, it conspicuously shown tMali’s domination in economical domain then. Later historians got to know more about Mali by written and non-written sources about its miscellaneous and splendid culture, and found out that Mali was entirely different contrasting with the Ghana Empire despite they both possessed similar backgrounds and …show more content…
The Sahara desert not only has a rugged terrain, but also scorch and arid climate; thus, it makes humans troublesome to survive in the sands, so were the Mali people. However, the arrangement of the trade routes not only maintained the empire in steady financial concerns, but also intensified its military and political strengths. The North Africans had also valued this transaction opportunity valuable and precious, they would provide camels as carriers to ensure the passage is safe and going smoothly. The gold and salt trade could be described in biological term as “ Obligate Mutualism”. “In obligate mutualism, one organism cannot survive without the other. This term is easy to remember because both organisms are obligated, or forced to, rely on one another.” (Mutualistic Relationships: Examples & Types.) Either the Mali or the North African coast countries relied heavily on the gold and salt trade. If the transaction system had never been worked up, both of the regions would had been extirpated in earlier times due to the harsh conditions in Africa. Moreover, both the Egyptian Mamluks and North African Merinid empires were also benefactors for the Mali because they befriended the Mali Empire to distend its transaction ring to Mediterranean by selling its gold in exchange for valuable commodities. Comparing to the European trade at the same period, Mali “Mansa