The Gao Empire was a powerful kingdom that ruled the Niger bend from approximately the 7th century CE until their fall to the Mali Empire in the late 14th century. Ruled by the Za dynasty from the capital of Gao, the empire was an important predecessor of the Songhai Empire.
^Bethwell A. Ogot, Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, (UNESCO Publishing, 2000), 303.
The GaoEmpire was a powerful kingdom that ruled the Niger bend from approximately the 7th century CE until their fall to the Mali Empire in the late...
said to be a Muslim. Towards the end of the 13th century, Gao became part of the Mali Empire. In the first half of the 15th century the town regained its...
Gao and the surrounding region had grown into an important trading centre and attracted the interest of the expanding Mali Empire. Mali conquered Gao...
Gao. The kingdom of Gao capitalized on the growing trans-Saharan trade and grew into a small regional power before being conquered by the Mali Empire...
with much past research on Gao, Gomez argues that the GaoEmpire was more important than researchers have recognised, that Gao was West Africa's first city-state...
sometimes equated with the Zaghe) were rulers of the GaoEmpire based in the towns of Kukiya and Gao on the Niger River in what is today modern Mali. The...
of its previous conquests short of Gao and Dyolof. Forty years after the reign of Mansa Musa Keita I, the Mali Empire still controlled some 1,100,000 square...
Bilal Ag Acherif to manage the new State of Azawad. The GaoEmpire owes its name to the town of Gao. In the ninth century AD, it was considered to be the...
the Qin Empire. In 210 BC, after Qin Shi Huang died in Shaqiu (沙丘; south of present-day Dapingtai Village, Guangzong County, Hebei), Zhao Gao and Li Si...
Dynasty of the Sunni Dynasty and Askia Dynasty and who ruled over the GaoEmpire, the marriages between the members descending from the three powerful...
of both the coastal and internal trade networks, such as the Mali and GaoEmpires. West Africa sat at the intersection of trade routes between Arab-dominated...
Dussubieux, L.; Fenn, T.; Gallagher, D.; Chipps Smith, A. (2013), "Excavations at Gao Saney: new evidence for settlement growth, trade, and interaction on the...
expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the city in 1468. The Moroccan army defeated the Songhai in 1591, and made Timbuktu, rather than Gao, their capital. The...
Empire who usurped the Sonni dynasty. The Askiya ruled from Gao over the vast Songhai Empire until its defeat by a Moroccan invasion force in 1591. After...
Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive. It was later...
forces of Askia Ishaq II at the Battle of Tondibi and occupied the capital of Gao shortly after. After this victory, however, the Moroccans struggled to have...
following Malian regions and areas of Mopti, Macina, Nioro, Kidal, Tomboctou, Gao, Sikasso, and others. In the Wasulu (Wassoulou) region of Mali, the most...
major empires dominated by Muslims, such as those of the Abbasids, Fatimids, Almoravids, GaoEmpire, Seljukids, largest contiguous Songhai Empire (15th-16th...
before the 13th century The history of the eponymous Mali Empire and of the Songhai Empire during the 13th to 16th centuries The borders of Mali are those...
Niger. Niger was an important economic crossroads, and the empires of Songhai, Mali, Gao, and Kanem-Bornu, as well as a number of Hausa states, claimed...
officer under Gao. As a result of Gao's first successful campaign, Tang began to contend for influence with the Abbasid Caliphate and Tibetan Empire in the area...
13th and the early 20th centuries (i.e., from the Islamisation of the Mali Empire until the decline of traditional education in French Sudan). Their subject...
century to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages...
Askia Muhammad Gao was the last ruler of the Songhai Empire, son of Askia Daud. He assumed power in the last months of 1591 after the defeat of Askia Ishaq...
argued that the Zarma were the ruling class of the GaoEmpire, later a vassal of the Mali Empire. In the early 14th century they were defeated by the...
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