The Mali Empire was an African empire from the thirteenth century to the seventeenth century and is recognized as the largest empire in West Africa that influence the culture and language of the area. Also, the Mali Empire is famous for its gold trade route, in this empire the economy was based on gold and salt trade, and a large amount of gold was traded to North Africa through the Saharian desert, also as gold was very abundant in the zone different gold items were created for clothing and decoration. Due to this, the main source of wealth was the gold and gold items that were traded and on second place the salt.
