<p>What was Mali like in the 13th century? Why do we know so little about it? Who was Abu Bakr II? (Hint: Not real, but you might want to hear about the very real Mansa Muhammad instead)</p> <p>Tales of trans-oceanic voyages and slave kings color our understanding of this era. Mali started the century as a disunited patchwork of kingdoms, but ended as a highly centralized monarchy. It's our job this episode to find out how that happened.</p>

What was Mali like in the 13th century? Why do we know so little about it? Who was Abu Bakr II? (Hint: Not real, but you might want to hear about the very real Mansa Muhammad instead) Tales of trans-oceanic voyages and slave kings color our understanding of this era. Mali started the century as a disunited patchwork of kingdoms, but ended as a highly centralized monarchy. It's our job this episode to find out how that happened.

1.4 - Peering Through the Fog

Guided narrative history of the rest of the world. Each season we explore a different historical civilization from Africa, Asia or the Americas, from its beginning to its end, stopping along the way to talk about the people who lived in it and how they lived.

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1.4 - Peering Through the Fog

1.4 - Peering Through the Fog