This empire included 16 seats for "quiver-carrier" clans in its 30-seat Gbara legislature.
This empire included 16 seats for "quiver-carrier" clans in its 30-seat Gbara legislature. Its generals included Sagmandia, and it built a center of learning called Sankore. Its founder allegedly used an arrow tipped with a white rooster's nail to win the battle of Kirina against Sumanguru; that founder was Sundiata Keita. Another of its rulers gave away so much while on hajj that the value of gold depreciated in Egypt. Largely absorbed by Songhai, for 10 points, name this empire ruled in the 1300s by Mansa Musa, a West African power whose largest city was Timbuktu.
This empire included 16 seats for "quiver-carrier" clans in its 30-seat Gbara legislature.
Mali Empire