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In this world, the Songhai managed to establish a firmer presence on the Atlantic coast/Senegal area, which leads to more contact with Europe, and easier access to gold-paid European engineering and gun-making expertise. As a result, Songhai is able to beat off Moroccan attacks, and remains the Big Dog of west Africa, expanding even further east than OTL.
Clashes with the Portuguese lead the Songhai to develop, with European and north African muslim assistance, a naval capacity to defend their Atlantic coast, and by the mid-1600s Songhai "privateers" have become a serious problem for the Portuguese: this culminates with a Songhai-Dutch alliance against the Portuguese, which leads to a shaky Songhai venture in the Amazon and a surviving, if shrunken, Dutch presence in north Brazil.
It will be under the emperor Askia (known to history as "The Great": to many of his subjects who disagree with his policies, as "The Devil"), however, that the dry and dusty land of the Songhai will, for good and ill, become truly a part of the Atlantic world...
Clashes with the Portuguese lead the Songhai to develop, with European and north African muslim assistance, a naval capacity to defend their Atlantic coast, and by the mid-1600s Songhai "privateers" have become a serious problem for the Portuguese: this culminates with a Songhai-Dutch alliance against the Portuguese, which leads to a shaky Songhai venture in the Amazon and a surviving, if shrunken, Dutch presence in north Brazil.
It will be under the emperor Askia (known to history as "The Great": to many of his subjects who disagree with his policies, as "The Devil"), however, that the dry and dusty land of the Songhai will, for good and ill, become truly a part of the Atlantic world...
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So cool!