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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 4029777" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>Great Thread and I'm really eager to see what further offerings you can make for my own contributions I'd like to suggest</p><p></p><p><strong>Timbuktu</strong> - Founded when the Fulani woman Buktu dug a well the Place of Buktu quickly grew to become the intellectual and trading capital of the Mali Empire. Timbuktu is primarily made of mud reinforced with wood which bristles out from the unique architecture and yet Timbuktu is home to the prestigious Sankore University and other madrasas, and has three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya. The University and many mosque were commissioned by Mansa Musa who is famous for his Hajj in which he was accompanied by a caravan consisting of 60,000 men including a personal retinue of 12,000 slaves, all clad in brocade and Persian silk. He also brought with him 80 camels loaded with 300 pounds of gold each. The emperor himself rode on horseback and was directly preceded by 500 slaves, each carrying a 6 pound staff of solid gold.</p><p></p><p>Timbuktu is the intersection of an east–west and a north–south Trans-Saharan trade across the Sahara to Araouane, it is populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Mandé people, is about 15 km north of the Niger River. and was important historically (and still is today) as an entrepot for rock-salt from Taoudenni.</p><p>Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, giving it its fabled status as a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu."</p><p>Timbuktu is famous for its scholarship and the city is the centre of a significant written tradition in Africa. Families still maintain medieval manuscripts on music, botany, astronomy, law, history and sciences</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I once ran a campaign set in Mali and a major arc based on Mansa Musa' Pilgrimage (although IMC the Pilgrimage was to Great Zimbabwe)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 4029777, member: 1125"] Great Thread and I'm really eager to see what further offerings you can make for my own contributions I'd like to suggest [B]Timbuktu[/B] - Founded when the Fulani woman Buktu dug a well the Place of Buktu quickly grew to become the intellectual and trading capital of the Mali Empire. Timbuktu is primarily made of mud reinforced with wood which bristles out from the unique architecture and yet Timbuktu is home to the prestigious Sankore University and other madrasas, and has three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya. The University and many mosque were commissioned by Mansa Musa who is famous for his Hajj in which he was accompanied by a caravan consisting of 60,000 men including a personal retinue of 12,000 slaves, all clad in brocade and Persian silk. He also brought with him 80 camels loaded with 300 pounds of gold each. The emperor himself rode on horseback and was directly preceded by 500 slaves, each carrying a 6 pound staff of solid gold. Timbuktu is the intersection of an east–west and a north–south Trans-Saharan trade across the Sahara to Araouane, it is populated by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Mandé people, is about 15 km north of the Niger River. and was important historically (and still is today) as an entrepot for rock-salt from Taoudenni. Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, giving it its fabled status as a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu." Timbuktu is famous for its scholarship and the city is the centre of a significant written tradition in Africa. Families still maintain medieval manuscripts on music, botany, astronomy, law, history and sciences I once ran a campaign set in Mali and a major arc based on Mansa Musa' Pilgrimage (although IMC the Pilgrimage was to Great Zimbabwe) [/QUOTE]
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