The Ancient and Medieval African Kingdoms: A Complete Overview
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- The African Kingdoms goes over the BOTH the Ancient and Medieval periods of African history. It is meant to be an overview.
It begins with a general look at Africa's different natural regions, before getting into Ancient Africa (the Nubians, kingdom of Axum, the smaller cultures in North and West Africa, and the Bantu migrations), and then Medieval Africa (African religion, the coming of Islam, the Ethiopian Empire, the Swahili Coast, West African Empires, the Central and Southern kingdoms), and ending with daily life, slavery, and arts and culture.
NOTE1: A part of one of our previous videos (Ancient Africa) was used for a couple of sections near the beginning
NOTE2: Ancient Egypt was covered in our last megadoc
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0:00 Ancient Africa (Nubia, Axum, North and West Africa)
20:52 Medieval Africa (Ethiopia, Swahili Coast, West African Empires)
32:45 Medieval Africa (Central and Southern Bantu Kingdoms)
35:11 Daily Life and Slavery Routes
41:30 Arts and Culture (Art, Architecture, and Music)
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What is your favorite African Kingdom or Empire?
Kanem- bornu one of the longest lasting empires in history
My top 3 favourite African Kingdoms/Empires
*Kingdom of Kush - The Kushites - From Sudan. Known for mastered weapons and bows (Ta-Seti). They are mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible. They also built pyramids like the Egyptians and had a great culture, language and history. They fought off multiple Invasions and once ruled Egypt for almost a century during the 25th Dynasty. They maintained a complex economy based on trade and industry.
*The Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopia) RIch culture, history, art, literature, and trade and power. Aksum became a major player on the commercial trade route between the Roman empire and ancient India. The Aksumite rulers facilitated trade by minting their own Aksumite currency, with the state establishing its hegemony over the declining Kingdom of Kush.
*The Mali Empire - which was ruled by Mansa Musa who is arguably the richest person who has ever lived due to mass amounts of gold he possessed and generously gave to the poor. Abubakari II, Mansa (King) of the Mali Empire in the early 14th century, led Malian sailors to the Americas, specifically present-day Brazil, almost 200 years before Columbus arrived. We're not sure if the Malians actually reached to the Americas, but that voyage in 1311 did in fact took place.
@@AskiatheGreat64 the grave robbers destroyed these historic feats of engineering
The kingdom of Nri!
The Islamic one that enslaved the darker ones like dogs
Why are so many people denying the existence of African empires/kingdoms? I thought all of this was common knowledge for people who enjoy history.
Agreed. Even though I knew a bit, I learned so much thanks to this video. More content like this is needed for us history buffs!
Why because they must be racist because me being Mexican I can admit that Jesus and the Virgin Mary were black ppl and the white ppl know this to why do you think the pope bows down and kisses the black Madonna. It’s facts so why would it be so hard to believe that there was African kingdoms way more Sophisticated.
Because they have to deny the existence. You have to put two and two together. American whites are as ignorant to world history esp. African world history because they have to hide, deny or blatantly lie about us to justify the upcoming purge on the black community
@@makellasafe agree in a sense but that isn’t limited to American white peoples, nor is it true for American white people as a whole. As an American white I have to say I’m not sure what the upcoming purge of the black community is that you’re referring to. Also would like to point out American white people are not a very unified group so you can’t really generalize us unless it’s in reference to white privilege or something else like that.
@@NMYSHOEZ there are a lot of racists but I don’t think it’s any where near an indisputable fact that Jesus was black. I would still say he was middle eastern but I’m no genealogist so I won’t claim that he was for a fact. Only thing that is a fact is that he wasn’t white.
I noticed something on TH-cam, whenever you watch videos about African civilizations, it's always full of comments from people either downplaying them or trying to discredit them. This only happens to African civilizations. You see no such thing about Japan, China, India, Persia, the Americas (Mayas, Incas, Aztetcs, etc), or anywhere else. It's truly something.
It’s racism, ignorance, and the historical erasure of black peoples accomplishments from our motherland
@@OGseoulite it makes me so sad
Ha, they have to.
If they don’t it’ll be discovered that Black Africans were in the countries named.
This is why the pope pray to the Black Madonna.
Tells me a whole lot or everything I need to know.
@@OGseoulite
Lol it’s feigned ignorance, all over the world they know what it is.
Exactly! There is truly something going on
As a history fan, I'm ashamed to admit my knowledge of African history is pathetically lacking. Thank you for this detailed video, it was fascinating and a great starting point to learn more! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
😂 your kidding right 😂
@@Tony2ton-fn8bp No..? Why would I be kidding..?
The only laughable thing here is you trying to mock someone when you don't even know the difference between your and you're...
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
I'm very hapy with the main comment.
Finally a pragmatic video about Africa that gets beyond Egypt and treats the rest of the continent with dignity. I’m in love with the Benin Bronzes and waited to see if you would mention them. I was not disappointed (could have shown more though.)
and isn't hotepist. I can't take a vid seriously when they say their ethnicity alone invented everything from the wheel to space travel.
I get enough caucasian conspiracy vids entering my feed masquerading as history vids that when it's anything to do with Africa I'm extra weary since I don't know african history so if they showing me bullshit I can't tell it is so.
Ancient Egypt was black like Prince Rahotep and his wife from old Kingdom. and also Queen Tiye mummy reconstuction, and tuya and tuya his parents. Ramses also black. black sub-saharan africa and africa america. we wuz kangz. we also have civilzation equal to Europe, Middle Easter/Arabs, Persian, Assyrian, Jewish/Hebrews, India, China, Japan, Southeast asia/Burmese, Mon, Khmer, Champa, Malays, Indonesia, Thai and Vietnamese. We are not like Papuan, Andaman Island Native/Jawara, Ongan, Melanesian, Australian Aboriginal, Khoisan, we are not hunter-gather, we dont have writing script, own book and manuscript, no numeral, no architecture, no temple equal to Angkor wat, Prambanan, Roman Temple, Arab mosque, European Church but we are also great like white and brown/middle eastern civilzation, that why Africa only used European Alphabet/Latin, Old south Arabian/Ge'ez script of Ethophia(half breed semitic from yemen) and Arabic, Madagacar half breed Malayan-Indonesian. the Malays the 1st to arrive to Madagacar not black africa because they have big ship busy others side maybe.
@@GonyaKulie-pg6uohow is it false history pls do explain
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
@@adamqa1up
Finally History without prejudice..Africa is still the richest resource wise and the population is booming ..it will rise again
Dear fellow history lovers , the real ones . This video is a great jumping off point. We can all admit no 47 minute presentation will encompass any subject adequately. If it encourages curiosity that's what matters.
You nailed it. I have the same like-minded sentiment.👍👍😁😁
keep lying to yourself. truth to the woke needs to be censored and deleted as they can't debate with facts, only fragile emotions triggered by facts. FACT: the african continent was illiterate minus very few places connected to more advanced civilizations via trading hubs and the Mediterranean. there's a reason black supremacist are desperate to blackwash everything form egyptian culture where they even show the black africans in their murals but ONLY as slaves and defeated nations beaten by the egyptian pharaohs. only ONE very short dynasty existed after the pharoah that tried to eradicate their pantheon and replace it with himself basically and that was the closest to monotheism ancient egypt got. Cairo's famous museum place every dynasty on top of the outside of the building, except the black dynasty. Egyptians have always known the truth and they treat them as second class citizens just as the koran dictates. actually read it if you doubt that. still to this day most of africa still can't stand on it's own even after untold billions being poured in via charity and assistance. instead of stealing and rewriting history, contribute to it. instead of taking credit for other innovations try innovating yourself. crazy idea i know. math isn't racist just because you can't multiply just like STEM fields aren't racist just because BLM intimidated scientists to agree with them. the revisionist historians only prove the world correct when they think southern africa is the least developed part of the world. this documentary proves it by taking the most flattering view of it's history and it is still embarrassingly deficient by every metric compared to other civilizations around the world. woke mind virus has truly infected much of these victims of progress and development. adapt or die, that's evolution. crying about not being able to create a written language to record african, non Mediterranean africa that is, history will never be able to magically make a true african written language. sorry, most of it's history is just hunting and gathering with small parts periodically deploying large scale agriculture. most didn't even have the wheel or enter their own bronze age. sad i know but lying doesn't change history. helping the lie only keeps them from growing. truth hurts sometimes but it is needed to grow.
100% facts. I’m brand new to this hobby and it’s so exciting. There’s a lot to study and the more I learn the better I feel
Great Comment
I love to know I'm not alone on this, learning about the ancient world has become a hobby to me
Man some of these comments are depressing. The very reason that most people don’t know anything about pre-colonial Africa is because of this same very racist ignorance always existing, its almost unbelievable. Great video super well done for covering so much so quickly.
No its actually because the lack of record keeping since most of them were illiterate societies.
@@arnoldvezbon6131Nah the original commenter was correct
@@arnoldvezbon6131record keeping way harder to preserve in tropical climate… also there are records of (black) african writing systems older than cyrillic, latin etc. that STILL HAVE people who can read and write with them. You are just ignorant
Stop caring about them, you give them too much power
@@moderatecanuck this is fake history north Africa has been Arab countries for thousands of years
It’s disappointing seeing some of these comments but I love your content nonetheless thank you for your work
I just can’t stand that computer voice
Indeed, pay them no mind.
@@Andy_Babb yeah he is very monotone hopefully that improves especially for these long videos
@ Malik Vaughan they do that to get your attention and get under your skin. No need to let people who aren’t sprouting wings anytime soon effect you🤷🏿♂️
I like the narration. It’s very calming.
Fun Fact: The sahara wasn't always the dry arid desert that we now see today but once a savanna landscape with many rivers and lakes that ran through it, when the kingdom of egypt existed.
You do understand that when pyramids was built was 4000 years ago and not 40000 years ago
@@redharrison894 🤔The sahara was green as little as 5,000 years ago. But shifts in the world's weather patterns, transformed the region into the vast dry desert that we now see today.
@@redharrison894 That 4000 years is cave people time line. Not first man time line. And the sahara was lush before The land that would be BlK KMT would go from being a marshland.
The sahara was lush when KMT which was African existed. That land was a marsh land and hunting ground for game at one point in time.
Yup, the Green Sahara.
It was the nomadic pastoralists who overgrazed the land causing desertification.
This is a great video. I'm glad ancient African civilizations and cultures are starting to get proper recognition.
Ditto!
😂😂🤣😂😂
@@malektahri5590what's funny
@@malektahri5590 cognitive impairment
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
Ngl I think Africa should have some light in history. It's quite underrated and understudied in the current perspective and pretty much this is a good video with the comment being kinda much of a warzone
The USA whitewash it
There’s actually a volume of books put together by some scholars, some native to Africa called: The General History of Africa. You can find some of the volumes on Amazon or online.
This is not me hating or coming from a Euroslant.
The reason why much of African history is not known or covered is because it was a bystander for much of human development. Most of the knowledge that advanced civilization was located on the trade routes (with the main one being the Silk Road) and sub Sahara Africa especially the interior was a pain to get to due to the geography.
It’s also why the civilizations in America get little attention.
@@ckhawk00 true
@@ckhawk00 I mean to be fair any history is interesting if you think about it, no matter by race, religion nor culture.
Sure history itself has been quite the center for fields of wars, to genocides, but take note that history is history, and history therefore is both a learning process where in we learn from our mistakes and do what's right
Also yea American Civilizations are quite interesting
I have loved African history since age 12!!! On repeat..... thank you!
Glad you liked it!
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
Please do show your sources to further your argument.@@adamqa1
Developing a love for history because my highschool was not very good and had almost no history program. Thank you for this video. It’s kind of a starting point in my journey of this new hobby of studying history
Swahili architecture is a unique infusion of styles developed in East Africa, with a mainland East African Bantu architectural substrate, infused with Yemeni, Omani, Persian, Indian, South East Asian, Chinese and uniquely local elements, including uniquely local construction materials such as ashlar coral stone masonry and coral rag set in burnt coral based mortar. Swahili architecture is internally coherent. Not a single building from the classical Swahili age looks quite like anything from outside of the Swahili world. Swahili architecture looks more like other Swahili architecture than anything else. There are hundreds of examples... It's not some cultural transplant. It's telling that the closest parallels to Swahili architecture are found on the Somali coast... If you break it down, you'll clearly see individual elements that were inspired by what they saw in their oversea's travels, like Omani style mihrabs, or Indian style royal pools, or a fortress with a Middle Eastern style layout, but always using uniquely local construction techniques and materials, and having their own local quirkiness. The type of localisms you wouldn't expect to see if it was actually built by foreigners.
It's perhaps worth noting that this so-called "Arab" architecture from southern Arabia was itself heavily influenced by Persian and Indian architecture, but nobody claims that Indians or Persians are responsible for Arabia's architectural heritage. It's only with Africans, that this line of reasoning is applied, for obviously dubious reasons. Yes, the Swahili Coast was an integral part of the Indian Ocean world. But they were a sovereign part of this world.
This is a Christian channel
They're history doesn't matter to us
Islamic history doesn't need this divide between nations states and ethnic lines
Mali history, songhai history, adal and ajuraan history, kilwa sultanate and many of the muslim swahili coast sultanates
They are strictly islamic history
Neither European not African history as these placeholder worlds are remnants of colonialism and don't need us to remember them
African, Asian, European
Words made famous by colonisers
We are our own people
We don't need to create imaginary identities because they're will always be people that do not see you as there own
@@maddogbasil Well, sorry, my friend cultures and subcultures exist even amongst Abrahamic religious followers! So no, it's not as simple as lumping all these African civilizations a Muslim or Christian or whatever. Yes, they adopted these religions, but they still had their own identities and cultures, which shouldn't be ignored. If you wish to ignore that, go for it. You are free to do whatever you want. If my comment offends you ignore it.
What did u expect from Westerners (americans)?
@@maddogbasil Again, Stop distorting Mali or other west African history.
Muslims like you are trying to sell a lie that Islam made the Mali Empire great. What rubbish.
All the greatest empires in Africa were founded by animists. The leaders that preceded Musa were all animists.
@@admirekashiri6651 I don't really get offended on internet debates
Secondly have you actually talked to a Malian
Ever visited there community and gotten to know any Muslim west Africans
If you did you'd know that many do not tend to remember much of there pagan ancestry except in stories and folklore
I've known many who see themselves separate of the arab speaking nations but entirely Muslim in culture and traditions
Just like many other non arab nations with muslims like Indonesia, Malaysia, bosnia, turkey, khazakastan, Pakistan, China
As a Southern African, I love all my Western, Eastern, Central and Northern African brothers and sisters! 🌍❤️
This condenses a lot of books on Ancient African history this was very well done
Thank you so much for this. I was hoping to find an overview of African history like this. This was amazing.
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
FINALLY!!! I have found a comprehensive documentary of African history. I’ve found it difficult to get a complete picture as not many TH-cam videos out there talking about African history relative to European and Asian history.
thank you , thank you, thank you for this incredible distalition of so much history in less than one hour!
Great video!!! Keep up the good work!!!
This was as great of an overview of African ancient history as I have been able to find so far. I really appreciate the attention to sub-Saharan Africa which often gets forgotten or overlooked in ancient/ medieval African kingdoms. I also really appreciate the attention paid to the cultural, agricultural, religion & trade factors of the regions. Thank you ❤
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history
@@adamqa1well said north Africa is Arab countries and culture and civilization
@@fionasmith6868 North Africa is not Arab; it’s predominantly Moors (Berber/Amazigh). The Moors or Berber Amazighs were the indigenous people of North Africa before the arrival of the Arabs 1400 years ago. North Africans are primarily Berber Amazigh, with a minor percentage of Arab and European DNA. Speaking Arabic does not equate to being ethnically Arab. Culture and ethnicity are different concepts.
@@fionasmith6868 The official langages in Morocco are Amazigh and Arabic. There are some people not speaking arabic at all, only Amazigh language and Tifinagh alphabet.
The Moors are Berbers, also known as Amazigh (Free people), they have their historical origins in Morocco and still live there today, the term “Moor” is derived from the Phoenician term “Mahurin”, which means "Westerners", they were named as Moorish kingdom 300 before JC. The Moors have white skin, while further south like in Mauritania they have a tanned complexion. However, they do not belong to the balck African ethnicity. The names Moors, Morocco, Mauritania, Marrakech... are all derived from the same origine.
What they refer to as “black Moors” are "Abid Al Boukhari" or " The black guard of the Sultan", they are not ethnically Moors; they are African soldiers hired to fight for the Moors. Europeans who saw them on the battlefield with the real Moors called them “black Moors”. The Moorish movement in America originated from these African soldiers who went to america in slavery trades..
Images alone cannot provide a comprehensive understanding. It’s noteworthy that the Moroccan Sultans employed African soldiers in their armies. Some of these soldiers’ leaders were handsomely compensated by the Sultan, enjoying luxuries such as opulent houses, fine clothing, and companionship.
However, their roles were confined to their military duties and they were not involved in the dynastic rule, the Moorish people in general, or the intellectual advancements of the time. These African individuals were hired warriors, their contributions primarily limited to their skills in warfare. Their lifestyle and compensation should not be misconstrued as having a broader influence on the achievements of the dynasties they served.
But it is Arab the DNA of north Africans is shared with common ancestors of Arabs and Europeans lol. They're mixed peoples @@adamqa1
Educational, insightful, well researched,this is real world history, greatly appreciated.keep sharing more content like this .
true!
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
Pretty stoked to have found your channel. Thanks.
I really enjoyed this complete explanation of ancient Africa..Best I've seen
Excellent study! Very much appreciated!
Thanks for sharing, love every bit of it. Greetings from a Melanesian guy.
Thank you so much men i just wanna say the video was helpful and well organized and explained
This is what I wanna see more of for February, what a great history full of fascinating stories and powerful empire/kingdoms. Amazing
Glad you liked it!
Fantastic overview!
Very informative subject
This video is such a great resource, it should become a classroom standard!
Aaaaaand I subbed. This is what I wanted to learn about in world history in HS
I think the Ashanti Kingdom has been able to keep its Traditions and Customs (By The Asanti Hene's) very well and till date, all other Nations Still recognize it as One of the Most Standing kingdoms to date.
Standing? Is it still a kingdom today?
@Laura Yeah
Amazing video to have managed a coherent overview of the rich & complex history of an entire continent & its many advanced civilizations. and in only 47 minutes. I love reading about colonial Africa, but I knew little or nothing about the continent before the colonial era. I want to learn more about these incredible, intricately entwined civilizations b/c of your dynamic story-telling. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this story so much for education
Love to hear about African empires!
Same 🤤
Me too
yes wakanda impire
outside of Mediterranean africa most of africa was illiterate and never got out of hunter gathering. rare cases where they even get into the bronze age. laughable you woke black supremacists that need to steal egyptian culture out of jealousy. cry more wokeys
@@semsemn2973 lol
I have always loved history but know practical nothing about pre-colonial Africa. It's just a huge gap in my historical knowledge. Thanks so much for the video! I'd love more.
Have a look on Robin Walker's work and get his books if possible! they are fantastic! And he did a wonderful job on reconstructing Ancient African history!
Such beautiful drawings and graphics. Thank you so much for this history lesson. Next up: Indigenous kingdoms of South America??
This was amazing, you did a great job putting all this information together in a digestible fashion. You just earned a new Subscriber 💪🏿
😮😮😮 however... Nah u do u if u can't do research what must we do
This was actually very unbiased and comprehensive. Much appreciation 🎉❤
He was actually pretty biased to the Somali/Oromo/Afar and overall Horn of Africa.
We heard all about the Sub-Saharan but little to nothing about much of the Cushite Macrobians and puntites
I guess their either not African enough smh 🤦
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
Never really learned about this part of history thank you!
As a Zimbabwean it was nice to see some first time history of the Bantu peoples. Thank you, keep digging deeper for Africa !!
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
I've always been curious about ancient Africa, and this video only feels like a dip in a vast pool of human history. Informative and well done, but I'm left craving more knowledge of our ancient past.
Have a look on Robin Walker's work and get his books if possible! they are fantastic! And he did a wonderful job on reconstructing African history (Ancient and medieval) and will sure feed that craving!
@@adegirly Thank you, I shall do that. 🕊
@@RegenerativeMojave u r welcome bro! I'm sure u will be more than satisfied!
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
Just proud to be African.
Proud to be Cuban of African decent (Mali) .
Proud to be something you had no control over being...
Cool story
Proud about the modern day slavery at your Cobalt mines? Cool...
@@brucew3641 So who's buying and financing that?🤣
@@brucew3641Are you proud of your history of colonization and genocide?
I just love how it's some very intelligent folks in the comments yal came out for dis one talk dat talk I love it ❣️
Excellent!!!
This is a treasure of information. Great job and thank you so much.
I’m very happy you enjoyed it!
Treasure🤔mmmmm
Just an overwhelming amount of information. It's also overwhelming to consider the sheer amount of adult life cycles involved in all this. Unimaginable ups and downs.
There is much more to unpack but this amazing info shall do for now.
The comments: meh i don't like black people because I was lied to for centuries about how behind they were and anything positive about black people that disprove my racist views I get triggered!
BS
That's basically it
It’s called Cognitive dissonance
@@ario4795 you mean FACTS? Just because you're country has been racist and tried to hide African history to make your white pale skin feel better and NOW due to less racism we are discovering our history that you're people tried to suppress. Your government been making white people feel good about themselves for centuries. That's why you created the concept of race.
@@ario4795 list of ancient African written
Ancient Egyptian.
Ancient Meroitic.
Tifinagh.
Ge'ez.
Nsibidi.
Adinkra.
Lusona.
Please save your WHITE LIES for yourself. all your people know to do is LIE, LIE and LIE! We are in the 21 century you think I cannot Google ancient African written in Google? What's the point of even lying when a simple search will disprove you? The obsession you guys have with trying to put down Africans to make yourself feel more powerful shows white people are soo insecure and they cannot feel superior without having to try and put other people down. You're superior is based on LIES and you know that, that's why you go to African history channels to leave racist and negative comments. Because once Africans feel empowered about who they are it's the end of your reign and you know it! White people are the most insecure race in the world. No other race behave likes this it's so weird
My favorite is the Aksum empire and Kush/Nubia.🙏🏾
Nobody asked you anything
Cry me a river, cry 👶 👶 baby😅😅😅😅
@@IVXSTR you must be fun at parties.
EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Been dodging the homeschool history lesson because I wanted to start with something other than Egypt. For me, once I learned that the Nile River flowed from south to north... I knew everything else was WRONG. THANK YOU for this video.
I really enjoyed this thanks 👏 is great for school research
What a great video!
Insightful
very good, thanks you
My favorite African Kingdom is the one that I am a descendant of; *the Mande' Kurufaba Empire (the Mali Empire),* who's first *'Mansa' ("Emperor") Sundiata Keita* also know as *"the Lion King!"("Manding Diara"),* it was the largest of *the West African Empire* and the richest at the time. It's rule lasted from *c. 1226 to 1670.*
What language is that?
Lol ok
I also descend from Mahmud IV of Mali
They were the richest cause they sold all their neighbors into slavery
We wuz kangz n shieet
As a white man myself im honestly amazed at why its only on videos on the history of African history and civilization that you get a lot of people in comments either discrediting or downright refusing to acknowledge there existence or accomplishments!!! I find african history astonishing as its where everybodys first ancestors came from and yet its the less known amongst all civilization history taught amongst others.
Great work,Please do some Research about Buganda Kingdom in present day Uganda..its really facinating.GREAT and wise people those Baganda..Way more civilised than most kingdoms mentioned
This is great stuff man. I'm glad I found your channel. My grandfather traveled all over the world and had 3 African wooden sculptures, about 3-ft tall. As a child I was always amazed by the amount of detail and realism in those sculptures. I dont remember where in Africa he got them, but I still remember them 30 years later
NORTH AFRICA WAS AND STILL NOT BLACK:
The blacks were hired warriors! They had nothing to do with all the achievements and intellectual advancements outside of what skills they provided in war.
The moors exist thousands of years before Arabs or black African slaves came to Morocco in slavery trades, they were black soldiers in a section of Moroccan army, the dynasty and rulers and peoples were Berber speaking and writing Berber, nothing to have with black Africans, the Moorish kingdom is not black, stop stealing people history 😂😂😂😂
@@adamqa1 Listen up Piltdown man, only someone with a racist mind would think that black people are just savage idiots, that are good for nothing but fighting or slavery. Your logic doesnt even make any sense because, before there were guns, that would mean that black people were the biggest, fastest, strongest, and just as smart as everyone else. So they would have own you Slav.
You people lie about everything. You stole or destroyed all of the civilizations in Africa then said a white civilization built it, you created a fake hominid species to claim people came from Europeans, you cried tears when proven wrong, and you lied about North Africa being a dessert for millions of years.
North Africa was as green as the Congo, and guess who cant go into the Congo without dying? Piltdown man, lol. That's you. You need modern medicine to protect your fragile bodies.
If the pyramids were built when North Africa was green, and you people can't be in the green parts of Africa without dying........ lol, dont worry, some some women like fragility in their men...... You'll get a woman one day
Thank you Made in History--- amazing summary!
A dupeh (Yoruba)
Asante sana, (Swahili)
I’m interested in the Kingdom of Kush and their famous Queens.
Mali is also very interesting - the Songhai empire- hmm. They’re all interesting in their own ways!
Why is there such a push to suppress this information?
Jealousy, racism
conspiracy theory
Because their mad
Great 👍
That was real cool. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed!
3:15 - 3:23 Actually Nubians are mentioned in the Bible, they were just ignored! King Taharqa is mentioned as coming to King Hezekiah's aid against the Assyrians.
You know your Nubian history
That's true, he was sent for but, I have read (somewhere) that, while he was on his way there, he was distracted by another skirmish...of some kind, that prevented him from actually getting there! GOD sent an Angel that slayed 185,000 of King Sennecharibs men!
What chapter in the Bible please?
@@jermainereece9254 he is mentioned in 2 Kings 19:9 and Isaiah 37:9. They spell his name as king Tirhakah instead of Taharqa.
I wish you make a compiled medieval history of all regions like you did the ancient history
That is currently being worked on. The different chapters are being released individually and then compiled into a Medieval history documentary covering the whole world!
There was also the Kitara empire in modern Uganda that was eventually invaded by the Luo peoples in the north and was replaced by the much lesser Bunyoro. Other societies emerged in this region the most prominent being the Buganda being the most powerful in the region by the 1700s
Great tribal animation halfway through, this really good video..
Thank you for touching on the Akan!
They were originated from the ancient Ghana. We Soninkes are the real Akans bro,
Best history channel hands down 🔥🔥🙏🙏
this is mainly propaganda
Bunch of haters in the comments who cannot back their (racist) feelings with facts.
They are just mad because their history is one of theft, deceit, lies, duplicity, disease, greed and genocide.
Yes, I remember all those Greek Vikings. 🤣
Real talk
@@johnhall7850 Huh?
@@johnhall7850 not sure exactly what you were trying to say but the Vikings absolutely encountered the Greeks and Romans . Also the Normans
This is excellent!
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!
Thank You so much for the GEM of Information !☺
No it's not I'm an African I'm in Africa right now half of this information is just bizarre, I cannot understand where he gets it from .incorrect. most of this is propaganda
@@asandamlotshwa8429, as if you know African history. Maybe your grandparents and country history; not all 55 countries. That's why the Europeans will continue to take advantage of Africa because of people like you. You hate to read yet clueless about the continent of Africa.
@@asandamlotshwa8429 clearly not african😂
Amazing video
Glad you enjoyed it!
The kingdom of Oyo, Ife and Benin still exists till date, all though depleted in power, the kings still reign on the land of their ancestors
This *should* have a million plus views like you see on TH-cam videos that detail Athenian and Spartan and Mycenaean and Roman and Indian and Persian and Hittite and Byzantine and British and every other type of civilization and empire…
But uh…the world, which is totally not clown, isn’t really too interested in learning anything about so called Sun Saharan Africa beyond the “loose collection of tribes always fighting” and “they sold each other” and “they didn’t build two story buildings or domesticate anything” that we grow up with. So🤷♂️
That was a great attempt, given the lack of information and the present prejudice. The producers have my respect for that.
Still, I would have liked to see more information on Tumbuktu and it's famous library. I would also have enjoyed more comments about the metallurgy in Nubia and in other places, because they make the case of civilizations capable of transforming raw materials into more complex products. Granted, you comment on brick production but I think the case for metallurgy is important.
In any case, a noteworthy attempt to reflect on Africa's complex and heterogenous history; done with respect and honest appreciation.
Just playing devil's advocate, this is a 45 minute video trying to cover centuries of history for a whole continent. I think they were just trying to cover a lot of material succinctly.
I agree with you though, there's a lot of fascinating stuff here and a lot of these subjects would make an excellent documentary all by themselves.
@@KS-PNWYou´re right. I think that the misinformation, or lack of information, about the issue has been so large that it is impossible to cover the whole thing in 45 minutes. I agree.
Nice video
Our African History is always a spiritual journey to discover and connect with our ancestor's spirits, Thank you for making this Video. ❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤
She never left you. You cant hear her like you once did but she always been trapped down here with us.
love our nile brothers in sudan from egypt
Thank you for this episode! Despite expanding my history knowledge in recent years, I still don't know much about ancient and medieval Africa beyond Egypt and Axum. Does anyone have any recommendations for more videos on African history?
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Check out the following TH-cam channels they have a ton on African histories.
From Nothing
Hometeam History
Hidden History
Africa History Channel
Red Spirit Mask
Afrostorian
Medieval Africa
@@admirekashiri6651 Thank you!
This information is like a deep cut in the hearts of people who grew up believing that Africans were inferior to them it hurts so much that it shows in this comment section don't pay attention to them let them deal with their bruised egos Africa unite and re-education yourselves our history is rich and untold but preserved by our ancestors because they knew that one day our generation will be the generation that liberate our motherland and its people
What’s wrong with people like you.. nobody denies African Kingdoms.. you are always busy with playing the victim and use any reason to remind people you feel inferior, while nobody cares about your minority complex.
Compared to other empires throughout the world, African empires were far less advanced and far less interesting.
definitely a deep cut in the heart of Nick here. Bleeding out all over your comment 😂
@@jordanjordannis2258 makes zero sense. Get help boy
@@Nick-yu5pl Why do you think that? Just because sub Saharan history is documented to Europe and other continent's extent, doesn't make it less interesting.
More! More! More! An afro-centric view of history is so needed.
Facts. It's one of the gaps in my history knowledge that actually bothers me a lot
outside of Mediterranean africa most of africa was illiterate and never got out of hunter gathering. rare cases where they even get into the bronze age. laughable you woke black supremacists that need to steal egyptian culture out of jealousy. cry more wokeys
that's just tribal bias. and no. europeans will always have their view, and africans should have their own view.
in the end, facts are all that matters. no 'centric' view.
because that's just opinions.
I want more on the history of Africa. Just over 30 years ago, I was looking to study history professionally. I changed fields but still love history. My view at the time was and still is that a historian should know their specialization to a level of expertise but everything else at least beyond the level of a layman. When I asked (in 1991) what I should use to learn the basics of African history, I was told we lacked enough sources for a coherent history of sub-Saharan Africa. That bothered me but I did not know what to do about it. I doubt the claim was true even then, but now we know so much more (I think). I want to heard it all: academic perspectives, traditional perspectives, and so on. I know practically nothing and want to learn.
Do you have citations for your videos of sources I can use in my classrooms?
If you are not black thank you for watching this amazing video if you are i hope this is empowering to those who didn't know.
Yeah
i wish I could have all of the historical information on Africa and all of the artifacts on africa.
Here are some really good TH-cam Channels that talk exclusively about African history, architectures, and cultures:
Home Team History
From Nothing
Red Spirit Mask
HistoryVille
Historical Africa
Master Your Craft
HiddenHistory
Very greedy. What are you gonna do with all of that?
This is a Christian channel
They're history doesn't matter to us
Islamic history doesn't need this divide between nations states and ethnic lines
Mali history, songhai history, adal and ajuraan history and many more
They are strictly islamic history
Neither European not African history as these placeholder worlds are remnants of colonialism and don't need us to remember them
African, Asian, European
Words made famous by colonisers
We are our own people
We don't need to create imaginary identities because they're will always be people that do not see you as there own
@@IronForgedUnderPressure they are our artifacts
This comment section has either, afroncentrists spreanding propaganda, racists dismissing all they hear but unable to debunk it, or people genuinely wishing to learn about history.
This is a ridiculous comment white people are something bruh
What black people ain't saying nothing
I'm a history buff....and I am shining brightly after seeing this vid.......Thank you
you did a nice job explaining what you knew
You skipped Songhai and Kanem-Bornu who were more powerful then Mali. You also completely skipped the history of NA after the ummayads with some of the most powerful empires on the continent. Sultanate of Kilwa? Adal sultanate? Makuria?
I would argue neither were more powerful than Mali. Mali was wealthier than both and had a larger linguistic and religious impact both inside and outside of Africa.
North Africans are arabs so not included. Adal was also weak and an Ottoman satellite state.
@@4shizzal I hope you aren’t talking about the North African empires, in sub Saharan Africa, idris Alooma had successfully worked on modernising his army having a large army of armoured Calvary as well as guns provided and trained by the ottomans. Songhai in its greatest extent subjugated northern Nigeria and even felt bold enough to push north towards taghaza. Millitarily these two were stronger then Mali, although mansa Musas Mali would have been more influential and even left behind some impressive architectures and a native west African scholarship
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp Morocco has always been a land where both Arabs and Amazighs resided, the Arabs were historically a minority who were invited and all indiginised and were absorbed into the amazigh culture. In general an Arab Moroccans DNA is mostly native and they belong to the continent more then a Bantu belongs to central and Southern Africa from the Bantu expansion
@@4shizzalSonghai was in objective fact, larger territorially and significantly stronger from a military perspective. It’s wealth didn’t reach the levels of Mali but it was its fabulous wealth that attracted the Moroccan invaders
I think they forgot D'mt, even though little is apparently know about it from what I can find.
I wish you talked about A culture Nubians, nabata playa, faiyum, Maadi, and Naqada
Love the video I learned a lot but what happened to the name ABYSSINIA between the time of the Aksum kingdom and the new name of Ethiopia as a country?🤔
If you look up the linkage of the queen of Sheba she goes back to Eber father of the Hebrews and A KUSHITE princes name Azurad
Another great video
The forgot to mention their love for stealing 😂
@@IVXSTR this could have been funny
@@IVXSTR how they steal
@@sageex3931 it's just in their nature. Look at the news.
How did you get the date for the stated agricultural beginning?
The rock-hewn churches have been built by the Zagwe (Agew) dynasty not by the Axum dynasty .
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24:12 axum was never landlocked the arabs attacked adulis but were pushed back in the contrary axumites were raiding Arabia and even conquered soqotra for a short while , additionally the axumite coast stayed very christian,jewish and semitic pagan until the 10th century when axum it self collapsed, even after that its zagwe successors kept its northern coasts while its muslim successors(sultanet of shewa) kept its southern coast but even those stayed christian until the late 11th-13th century, this is the reason why there are many christian and jewish tombstones in northern somaliland,Djibouti and eastern Ethiopia.
@@vnolan633 probably were until Islam became popular