In a millennia, Mauritanian Urban Cities: Walata, Almoravids, Timbuktu, Berbers, Awdaghost, Diafanu, Sosso(Ghana), Songhay(Songhai), Tekrur(Senegal), Wangara(Guinea), Jolof, Koumbi Saleh, Gao, Akan, Hausa, Yoruba, were all urban business cities and trading centers in Mauritania. A Territory of Roman Empire in AD 750-870 In West Africa.
According To Roman Tradition, Mauritania Was The Only Territory Recognized By The Emperor In Rome To Appoint A Governor and The Three Centurions Before The Collapsed of the Roman Empire.
After The Collapsed of Roman Empire, Many People From The Market Cities of The Territory of Mauritania Moved Away and Settled At Very Far From The Roman Territory(Mauritania).
People At That Time Realized They Had Gained Freedom From Romans Captivity and Slavery. Which Then Yielded Into Rampant Migration From Mauritania Unto South Eastern and South Western Part of the Roman Territory. To Protect Their Freedom and To Develop Their Own Self.
Due To Movement of People From Mauritania, The Urban Cities Collapsed and Converged In A Different Market Cities.
Kingship Started From The Newly Developed People Who Were Free From The Colonization, Imitated Colonization and Empire Kingship From Their Past Master(Roman Empire) and Then Developed Their Clan and Tribal System Into Kingship Authorities With Strong Warriors For Battles and Trade.
The Development of The People Resulted Into Cities Turning Into Urban Business Centers and Kingship System From Different Tribal Groups Living On Their Own Communities.
Some of the Cities Which At Then Developed Into Kingship Due To Immigration Were:
- Mali(Guinea) Kingdom
- Ntani(Guinea) Kingdom
- Wangara(Guinea) Kingdom
- Jolof(Gambia) Kingdom
- Sosso(Ghana) Kingdom
- Kanem-Bornu Kingdom
- Tekrur(Senegal) Kingdom
- Amoravids Kingdom
- Songhay(Songhai) Kingdom
- Akan(Asante) Kingdom
- Hausa(Sokoto) Kingdom
- Yoruba Kingdom
Among All The Kingdoms, Only A few Lasted For Long Period of Time. Some Collapsed As They Were Conquered and Captured By Other Kingdoms. Many Other Ones Also Diminished As Soon As Their King or Their Leader Died.
It Occurred During The Period Where People Were Moving Ups and Downs In Search of Pasture Land For: Water, Food, Roots & Tubers, Game Meat, Farming Land and Protection.
The People Continued Thriving From Many Captivities, Levies and Slavery From Other Kingdoms. Some of The Strong Kingdoms Although Fell and Rise Again, Thrived Hard Till Today.
The Number of Kingdoms That Emerged In West African Territories Though, Rised and Fell, In Their Helpless Period of Time, Were Again Colonized By Foreign Kingdoms In AD 1400.
The Foreign Kingdoms Were Very Different From Their Former Master, The Roman Empire, Yet They Colonized West Africa.
Despite Their Rise and Fall, At The Long Run, The People Were Able To Develop Into Nationhood Today.
