People came from Ethiopia, Andalusia (southern Spain), Arabia and Turkey. From the late 1200s to the early 1300s, the city became part of the Mali Empire and became central to the empire’s ...

The Mali people. Population growth has been rapid in Mali ... A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali Empire by generating wealth. Trading gold and salt have proved to be ...

As a result of monopolizing the gold trade and developing its agricultural resources, the Mali Empire prospered. The currency of Mali, like Ghana, was the guilders’ currency. A heavy guilder’s tax was ...

Though the empire of Mali was home to so much gold ... recounted how highly the people of Cairo were speaking of him. So lavishly did he hand out gold in Cairo that his three-month stay caused ...