urbanafricancities:Some facts you didn’t know about Ancient…



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Some facts you didn’t know about Ancient Mali

In the 14th Century the city of Timbuktu, Mali was five times bigger than the city of London and was the richest city in the world

Malian sailors got to America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus

In the fifteenth century in Timbuktu the mathematicians knew about the rotation of the planets, knew about the details of the eclipse, they knew things which we had to wait for 150 almost 200 years to know in Europe when Galileo and Copernicus came up with these same calculations and were given a very hard time for it

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