Jesus fucking Christ, the greed and temerity of some people

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[–]Canbot 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Claims of "they took ar gold" are dubious at best. It is extremely unlikely that grass hut living foragers had the ability to mine gold.

[–]chottohen 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Mali was trading with Europe via multiple camel caravan routes over a thousand years ago. The caravans carried gold and salt. Timbuktu was a center of Islamic learning and culture and it could be argued that Islam was ahead of Europe in those areas

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Transitory gold that came from other lands to be traded in Mail is not Mali gold. It is the gold of merchants passing through and freely trading it. The claim then that this gold was taken from Malians is a total lie.

[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As the record shows, I made no such claim.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is the central claim of the original post. It is literally the topic of the comment you replied to.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the ancient Egyptians got their gold from sub-Saharan Africa.

So they have been giving their gold away for a very long time.