Throughout its recent history, Africa has been the sight of many terrible events and happenings, such as war, genocide, starvation, and poverty. Depicted as a poor and corrupt continent filled with decease, the entire place has fallen short in nearly every category, save perhaps war, which it exceeds all other regions on Earth. However, things were not always like this. Africa had been the home of many wondrous and powerful empires. The Mali Empire was the wealthiest nation on Earth, so much gold that its monarch gave it away during his pilgrimage to Mecca, both as a sign of wealth and power. The Kingdom of Axum was one of the four superpowers of the world when Rome was at the apex of its strength, and fielded an army of one million men against the Kingdom of Israel in the Bible. And might