Once wealthier than Paris, London, or Rome, Timbuktu was very different from other ancient cities.Men wore veils.Life centered around the children.Nomadic women were afforded great respect, even getting the tent in a divorce.But Moroccan invaders in 1591 dissolved the order and discipline that had supported this City of Gold, and Timbuktu was never the same.
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