Season 6 Episode 18: The Omani Empire
History of Africa

Season 6 Episode 18: The Omani Empire

C1AdvancedAugust 11, 202525 min
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Kilwa is brought to its knees by one final foreign invasion, which leads the island into an irreversible decline and the eventual dissolution of the sultanate.

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A Portuguese caravel, captain by the night and sailor Nuno 3-stop, had ventured further

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In 1446, the world was on the brink of a major transformation. A Portuguese caravel, captain by the night and sailor Nuno 3-stop, had ventured further down the coast of West Africa than any European vessel had traveled in centuries. An important figure in the Portuguese royal court of his era, and a personal favorite

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of the famous Prince Henry the Nabigator. Nuno 3-stop was, by this point, a veteran of these kinds of exploratory missions. This was his fourth such voyage, having traveled increasingly ambitious distances on each of his expeditions.

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On his previous journey, police dial had finally encountered the land, which Europeans had long heard about second hand through travelers and merchants, the Belud also done, or land of the Black people, reaching his far as northern Senegal. During previous voyages around Morocco, 3-style had left a trail of devastation around the

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