Essay+on+the+Mali+Empire

Essay on Mali Empire It is amazing what we can learn from other cultures. People don’t know the world in which they live in and they miss out on learning about the wonderful things about other cultures. People also don’t realize how fast things change. For example: countries were very different 500 years ago to what they are in the present. Look at the Republic of Mali, a country located in West-Africa. Mali has been through a lot throughout the years. It’s had its ups and downs and there’s a lot we can learn from that. One of the main reasons why the Empire of Mali collapsed was because of money. One of Mali’s emperors, Mansa Camba II who at the time was the emperor didn’t know how to use money and he took advantage of the fact that he was the emperor and he started wasting the civilization’s money buying fancy stuff for himself until he almost bankrupted the Mali Empire. We can take Mansa Camba II’s example and learn from it. Money is not infinite. If you spend and spend and keep spending your money; eventually, you’re not going to have any money left. If you use your money wisely and use it only for the things you need you’re still going to have enough money left. Another reason why the Mali Empire failed was because they didn’t have democracy back then. 500 years ago in Mali they would choose their kings or queens or emperors by blood. The only people that got the right to be the rulers were the ones that had the same blood as the old ruler. For example, if there was a king and the king dies for whatever reason, the person that took over the king’s throne was the king’s son. Because of this the Mali Empire had some bad emperors such as Mansa Camba II, Mansa Mahmud III, and Musa III who didn’t do anything beneficial for the civilization. They thought that just because they had the emperor’s bloos that they were going to be a better ruler than anyone else when they could’ve had another person as emperor that would’ve done a better job. What we can learn from this is that just because you come from a smart family does not mean you’re going to be smart because everyone is different and if they would’ve given someone else the chance to be an emperor maybe that person would’ve done a better job that the others. The main reason why the Mali Empire collapsed was because of Emperor Mansa Mahmud III who wanted to invade another civilization called Sanghai, so he sent his military troops to that civilization causing a huge war between the two empires. Mali lost that war and the empire became weak. Years later, Mali’s emperor Mansa Mahmud III died and no one else became emperor causing the Mali Empire to end. We can learn something from this little story and that is NOT TO FIGHT. If the world lived in peace it would be a much better place. There wouldn’t be poverty, racism, war, deaths and tears. If Mali’s emperor wouldn’t have been so ambitious to take another country’s land none of this would’ve happened but unfortunately he did and that cause the Empire to collapse. In conclusion, there’s a lot we can learn from stories we read and from other cultures. All of the problems listed above happened because of ignorance and not knowing what’s right. Most people know the difference between good and bad but they choose to ignore whats bad so they can get what they want and in some cases bad things can happen from this; that’s why its better to do the right thing all the time.