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Technology wasn't really advanced in the Mali Empire. They mainly depended on other countries for their weapons. The people in the empire made their own weapons out of bows and arrows.
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A tyrant would say that they are in charge, that there won't be a democracy, and would then possibly arrest or kill the people who are asking.
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Paul of Tarsus was a slave to Christ and James the half brother of Christ warned of the love of riches or mammon
I think this could be a psychological phenomenon: people look for some symbols common to humanity, that would represent humanity as a whole.
The ancient Seven Wonders were a reminder of how far humanity has come and something that all the people who referred to them had a common: a wonder at how magnificent these structures were.