Thread by @Baron1521

Please allow me to systematically dispose of this Canary Island r@pebaby's cope.

🧵A thread

https://twitter.com/Impperatore/status/1687518750877048832

First off, there's no evidence that the Almoravids conquered Ghana. Rather, Ghana converted peacefully, dissolved due to internal problems, being conquered by the neighbouring Kingdom of Sosso.
(Source: The Conquest that Never was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I)

Next it's time to set the record straight in regards to the fate of Songhai Empire. I've always been skeptical of the popular narrative of "muh weak black empire destroyed by stronk Mahgrebis" that gets parroted everywhere. Perhaps it's reaction to the beurette a khel phenomenon?

The catalyst for the expedition were rumours of vast sums of gold waiting to be taken. Firstly, most "Moroccan" troops were actually Iberians, prisoners of war, even the general who led them was Iberian and the arms were supplied by England. So this is hardly a Moroccan victory.

The battle was clearly a pyrrhic victory, in which they took heavy casualties from the forces of Askia Nūh, the mercenaries moved into the city and occupied it. They even managed to behead one of the besieging generals.

After the battle, Askia Nūh, the king of Dendi, continued the fight, inflicting numerous defeats on the mercenaries when they tried to press further into the Soudan.

Meanwhile, the once-great city Timbuktu began to languish under Saadi occupation. Back on the home front, people were forced to resort to cannibalism just to stay alive. They also introduced disgusting traditional Moroccan cultural practices such as sodomy to the area.

The mercenaries there indeed would find no gold, instead finding only disease and the desert heat. Desperate to keep up the facade of victory, Al-Mansur paraded around some poor sod's skull and attempted to pass it off as that of Askia Ishak.

After all, this wasn't the first time he'd attempted to conquer the gold fields. In fact, when Ahmed attempted to seize Timbuktu previously, when Songhai was more stable, the army was sent back empty-handed. Ahmed's wounded pride didn't allow him to admit he'd been beaten.

The situation back home began to get worse as the mercenary force was subjected to guerilla tactics from the locals. Many historians attribute this strategic failure to being the lynchpin of the decline and eventual destruction of the Saadi Sultanate.

In a twist of fate, the Pashalik became subject to constant raids from the mostly pagan Bambara people, who would often kidnap women and force them into concubinage. The city itself would continue its relative independence and decline until colonialism.

So what did we learn today?
>The supposed conquest of Wagadu never occurred
>Moroccan control of Timbuktu backfired immensely
>The force that actually did most of the work wasn't even Moroccan
The occupation was like Moroccans themselves: violent, short and quickly forgotten.