Moroccan Sa'adi Triumph
1578
The Sa'adi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, brother of the slain Moulay Abdallah, emerged from the Battle of the Three Kings as the new ruler of Morocco. Enriched by Portuguese ransoms and European respect, he consolidated a Moroccan golden age that would soon reach across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ahmad al-Mansur's later Songhai conquest and sugar wealth made Morocco one of the Islamic world's most powerful states.
In context
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.