Libra
11-05-2016, 01:16 AM
[MENTION=21558]Emiliano[/MENTION]
The most interesting thing for me to read was how Africa in general enjoyed better times in the Middle Ages than it does today, by a lot. For instance the East coast had a network of Swahili-administered thriving port cities that traded inland commodities for manufactured goods from the Arabian peninsula, India and even China. Some of those still exist today, like Mombasa. Others like Dilwa are in ruins. Some like Mogadishu in Somalia are now civil war battle grounds. Back then, it seems, they were decently wealthy cities with interesting architecture.
I didn't know much about Africa either, to be honest. In school you stick to the Mediterranean, Carthage and Egypt, barely glimpse through the Arab conquest and then you never hear from Africa again (and never again after) until it was time for the pleasentries of colonization.
The most interesting thing for me to read was how Africa in general enjoyed better times in the Middle Ages than it does today, by a lot. For instance the East coast had a network of Swahili-administered thriving port cities that traded inland commodities for manufactured goods from the Arabian peninsula, India and even China. Some of those still exist today, like Mombasa. Others like Dilwa are in ruins. Some like Mogadishu in Somalia are now civil war battle grounds. Back then, it seems, they were decently wealthy cities with interesting architecture.
I didn't know much about Africa either, to be honest. In school you stick to the Mediterranean, Carthage and Egypt, barely glimpse through the Arab conquest and then you never hear from Africa again (and never again after) until it was time for the pleasentries of colonization.
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