conquering the Songhai empire in West Africa. Thanks to his army, Morocco took control of gold and salt trade routes. Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur was determined to maintain good alliances with ...

Islam, traditional Songhai religion and Paganism Sonni Ali is remembered as a strong military leader who greatly expanded the empire. After conquering Tuareg, he brought the Saharan trade routes ...

11th century - Empire ... trade to the Songhai Empire, which makes its base in Timbuktu - historically important as a focal point of Islamic culture and a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan ...

These include poor protection of trade routes, weak enforcement ... But the last major empire in West Africa - Songhai - collapsed around 1650, creating a power vacuum that resulted in internal ...

Criterion (iii): The Tomb of Askia is an important vestige of the Songhai Empire, which once dominated the Sahel lands of West Africa and controlled the lucrative trans-Saharan trade. Criterion (iv): ...

the Emperor of Songhai, in 1495 in his capital Gao. It bears testimony to the power and riches of the empire that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries through its control of the trans-Saharan ...