The ethnic people who ruled this empire first inhabited its capital under the king Dia Kossoi. Parti
The ethnic people who ruled this empire first inhabited its capital under the king Dia Kossoi. Partially supplanted by the Dendi, this empire employed assara-munidios to enforce laws. One ruler of this empire was victorious at the Battle of Anfao and proclaimed a jihad against the Mossi people. This empire's salt mines at Taghaza were destroyed by the Saadi eunuch Judar Pasha, who defeated the inept (*) Ishaq II at the Battle of Tondibi. Hundreds of princes from this state's eventual capital were taken hostage by its predecessor, and its zenith occurred under Askiya Muhammad II. Forged by Sonni Ali Ber and ruling from the city of Gao, for 10 points, name this West African empire that succeeded Mali.
The ethnic people who ruled this empire first inhabited its capital under the king Dia Kossoi.
{Songhai} Empire