Augen on 14 August 2014
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He also claims that there has been no civilization that has flourished under majority Black leadership beyond mere tribal status in the African continent. To be more than tribal, the civilization has to have achieved significant advances in cultural institutitons (e.g. art, education), warfare, technology, and/or commerce. Significant to mean avant-garde, at a rate above simularly situated people/cultures at the time.
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Musa I of the Mali Empire was so wealthy when he took his pilgrimage to Mecca he affected the economies of every city he passed with his gold. Imagine in 1300s roughly 60K procession in your town for a time and then leaving. Be pretty awe inspiring to me.
