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Leo Africanus (1485 –1554)

Leo Africanus (1485 –1554). Leo Africanus was born El Hasan ben Muhammed el-Wazzen-ez-Zayyati in Spain, in 1485. He was given the name Leo Africanus by Pope Leo X, who commissioned him to survey Africa in the early 16 th century.

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Leo Africanus (1485 –1554)

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  1. Leo Africanus (1485 –1554)

  2. Leo Africanus was born El Hasan ben Muhammed el-Wazzen-ez-Zayyati in Spain, in 1485. He was given the name Leo Africanus by Pope Leo X, who commissioned him to survey Africa in the early 16th century. He visited Timbuktu during the Songhai Empire. Although it was past its peak, Timbuktu was still a busy trading town and center of learning. His accounts provided most of what Europeans knew about the continent for several centuries. Leo Africanus (1485 – 1554)

  3. Timbuktu: • Timbuktu is a trading town in West Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara desert. • It began as a trading post around 1100 CE. • Gold, cloth, and slaves were exchanged in the markets of Timbuktu and transported north. • Items such as salt were transported south by West Africans. • This trade made the town grow.

  4. Timbuktu:

  5. Timbuktu: • “The houses of Timbuktu are huts made of clay-covered wattles with thatched roofs.”

  6. Timbuktu: • “The inhabitants are very rich, especially the strangers who have settled in the country; so much so that the current king has given two of his daughters in marriage to two brothers, both businessmen, on account of their wealth.” • “The women of the city maintain the custom of veiling their faces, except for the slaves who sell all the foodstuffs.”

  7. Timbuktu: • “The royal court is magnificent and very well organized. When the king goes from one city to another with the people of his court, he rides a camel and the horses are led by hand by servants.”

  8. Timbuktu: • “If fighting becomes necessary, the servants mount the camels and all the soldiers mount on horseback.” • “This king makes war only upon neighboring enemies and upon those who do not want to pay him tribute.” • “When he has gained a victory, he has all of them – even the children – sold in the market in Timbuktu.”

  9. Timbuktu: • “There are in Timbuktu numerous judges, teachers and priests, all properly appointed by the king. He greatly honours learning. Many hand-written books imported from Barbary are also sold.” • “There is more profit made from this commerce than from all other merchandise.”

  10. “Instead of coined money, pure gold nuggets are used; and for small purchases, cowrie shells which have been carried from Persia, and of which 400 equal a ducat.” Timbuktu:

  11. Think It Through • What impressions do you get about the early civilizations of West Africa from reading this account? • Is this a valuable source of primary evidence? • Explain your response.

  12. A Berber (North African) traveler who traveled to Mali and other nations as far away as China. Ibn Battuta

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sqo7THZNh0

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