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Songhai's Environmental Collapse: The Drought That Doomed an Empire
Episode 135 of Fexingo History takes you deep into the Sahel's climate history and its role in the fall of the Songhai Empire. Lucas and Luna explore the devastating drought cycles of the 16th century, the collapse of the Niger River floodplain agriculture, the famine that struck Timbuktu in 1591, and how environmental stress may have weakened Songhai before the Moroccan invasion. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan, oral traditions, and modern paleoclimatology, they examine the fari-mondio's failed irrigation projects, the Sorko fishermen's crisis, and the empire's inability…
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