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The Battle of Tondibi: Songhai's Catastrophic Collapse
In 1591, the Songhai Empire fell not to centuries of decay but to a single day of gunpowder and terror. This episode reconstructs the Battle of Tondibi, where Askia Ishaq II's 30,000-strong army faced just 4,000 Moroccan invaders armed with arquebuses and cannons. We explore the tactics — from Songhai's desperate cattle stampede to the Saadian's devastating volley fire — and the aftermath that saw Timbuktu's scholars exiled and Gao's palaces looted. Discover how Morocco's Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur funded his invasion with salt revenues from Taghaza, how the Songhai…
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