The hidden treasures of Timbuktu - Elizabeth Cox
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Date: 2020-10-22
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Makan
Strange how certain people will call West Africans savages when the Malian empire's knowledge and wealth rivaled that of Europe. Mansa Must literally destabilized the Egyptian economy by stepping foot in Egypt, European scholars studied in Timbuktu, and the gold from the West ended up being traded across the world.
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Strange how certain people will call West Africans savages when the Malian empire's knowledge and wealth rivaled that of Europe. Mansa Must literally destabilized the Egyptian economy by stepping foot in Egypt, European scholars studied in Timbuktu, and the gold from the West ended up being traded across the world.
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Nandlal
Similar things happened with India's Nalanda University, World's once oldest University where many foreign schlors came to gain knowledge unfortunately under Mughal invasion it was burned down and I must say the amount of information lost was ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!
I think one should research about this too.
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Similar things happened with India's Nalanda University, World's once oldest University where many foreign schlors came to gain knowledge unfortunately under Mughal invasion it was burned down and I must say the amount of information lost was ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!
I think one should research about this too.
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Balakrishna
I don't know why the conquerors burned libraries.
I am an indian and even in india the mughal conquerors burnt nalanda university
But my question is WHY?
Btw even nalanda university had most of the vedic language books and many scholars came to learn here from all around the world
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I don't know why the conquerors burned libraries.
I am an indian and even in india the mughal conquerors burnt nalanda university
But my question is WHY?
Btw even nalanda university had most of the vedic language books and many scholars came to learn here from all around the world
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ananya
My heart aches when I think of all that knowledge being gone forever, even in India and I'm sure that in many parts of the world. It's interesting to think how different our lives would be now if that knowledge had been saved and grown exponential from that point.
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My heart aches when I think of all that knowledge being gone forever, even in India and I'm sure that in many parts of the world. It's interesting to think how different our lives would be now if that knowledge had been saved and grown exponential from that point.
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stolen
Nalanda university in India thought to first university. Also got destroyed by invasion.
Legends say that book burnt by the invasion took months to burn.
I would love to see TEDed video on that
(Of course with heart ache for the knowledge lost)
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Nalanda university in India thought to first university. Also got destroyed by invasion.
Legends say that book burnt by the invasion took months to burn.
I would love to see TEDed video on that
(Of course with heart ache for the knowledge lost)
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michaela
This is so beautiful and fascinating to me. at least up until the French came into the picture (colonisers, typical. My heart hurts for all the books burned and lost, though. Maintaining one's culture is vital! Thank you for this video: )
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This is so beautiful and fascinating to me. at least up until the French came into the picture (colonisers, typical. My heart hurts for all the books burned and lost, though. Maintaining one's culture is vital! Thank you for this video: )
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SouthSide
Askia the Great is mentioned in this video but he definitely deserves his own video documenting all of his greatness. But it is great to see Africa's wealth of knowledge being spoken about on this page. Nice video.
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Askia the Great is mentioned in this video but he definitely deserves his own video documenting all of his greatness. But it is great to see Africa's wealth of knowledge being spoken about on this page. Nice video.
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Bonou
It s sad how such a place with a vast knowledge and history that could benefit the world is forced to hide underground as the people are forced to face the same financial and political challenges even to this day.
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It s sad how such a place with a vast knowledge and history that could benefit the world is forced to hide underground as the people are forced to face the same financial and political challenges even to this day.
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