Songhai Empire
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Songhai | |||||||||||||||
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c. 1464–1591 | |||||||||||||||
![]() The territorial extent o the Songhai Empire in c. 1500. | |||||||||||||||
Caipital | Gao[1] | ||||||||||||||
Common leids | Songhai | ||||||||||||||
Govrenment | Empire | ||||||||||||||
Dia (Keeng) | |||||||||||||||
• 1464–1492 | Sunni Ali | ||||||||||||||
• 1492–1493 | Sonni Bāru | ||||||||||||||
• 1493–1528 | Askia the Great | ||||||||||||||
• 1529–1531 | Askia Musa | ||||||||||||||
• 1531–1537 | Askia Benkan | ||||||||||||||
• 1537–1539 | Askiya Ismail | ||||||||||||||
• 1539–1549 | Askia Ishaq I | ||||||||||||||
• 1549–1582/1583 | Askia Daoud | ||||||||||||||
• 1588–1592 | Askia Ishaq II | ||||||||||||||
Historical era | Postclessical Era | ||||||||||||||
• Songhai state emerges at Gao | c. 1000 | ||||||||||||||
• unthirldom frae Mali Empire | c. 1430 | ||||||||||||||
• Sunni Dynasty begins | 1468 | ||||||||||||||
• Askiya Dynasty begins | 1493 | ||||||||||||||
• Songhai Empire faws | 1591 | ||||||||||||||
• Dendi Kinrick continues | 1592 | ||||||||||||||
Aurie | |||||||||||||||
1500[2] | 1,400,000 km2 (540,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
1550[3] | 800,000 km2 (310,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Currency | Cowry | ||||||||||||||
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The Songhai Empire (an aa transleeteratit as Songhay) wis a state that dominatit the wasrten Sahel in the 15t an 16t century. At its peak, it wis ane o the lairgest states in African history. The state is kent bi its historiografical name, derived frae its leadin ethnic group an rulin elite, the Songhai.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Bethwell A. Ogot, Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, (UNESCO Publishing, 2000), 303.
- ↑ hunwick 2003, pp. xlix.
- ↑ Taagepera 1979, pp. 497.