{"id":140014,"date":"2015-08-22T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/22\/teded-mansa-musa-traveled-through-timbuktu-on\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:18:36","slug":"teded-mansa-musa-traveled-through-timbuktu-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/22\/teded-mansa-musa-traveled-through-timbuktu-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-140014 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/22\/teded-mansa-musa-traveled-through-timbuktu-on\/attachment\/140015\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nsm8sp84fv1sjwwzso1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nsm8sp84fv1sjwwzso1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nsm8sp84fv1sjwwzso1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/teded.tumblr.com\/post\/127236898770\" target=\"_blank\">teded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Mansa Musa traveled through Timbuktu\u00a0on his way to Mecca, and made it a part of his empire when he returned around 1325 C.E. He brought architects from Andalusia\u00a0and Cairo to build his grand palace in Timbuktu as well as the Djinguereber Mosque.\u00a0The University of Sankore in Timbuktu was restaffed under Musa\u2019s reign, making the university a center of learning and culture, drawing Muslim scholars from around Africa and the Middle East to Timbuktu.\u00a0While Musa\u2019s palace has since vanished, the king\u2019s rich legacy\u00a0can be seen in mausoleums, libraries, and mosques that stand as a testament to this golden age of Mali\u2019s history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From the TED-Ed Lesson <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/mansa-musa-one-of-the-wealthiest-people-who-ever-lived-jessica-smith\" target=\"_blank\">Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived &#8211; Jessica Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/edit\/www.20steps.ge\" target=\"_blank\">Sandro Katamashvili<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teded: Mansa Musa traveled through Timbuktu\u00a0on his way to Mecca, and made it a part of his empire when he returned around 1325 C.E. He brought architects from Andalusia\u00a0and Cairo to build his grand palace in Timbuktu as well as the Djinguereber Mosque.\u00a0The University of Sankore in Timbuktu was restaffed under Musa\u2019s reign, making the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/22\/teded-mansa-musa-traveled-through-timbuktu-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,16198,16196,16197,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140016,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140014\/revisions\/140016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}