Yes Malians did rule the savannah, or more accurately, the Sahel.
But it’s beyond me that even Cappadocia, simply the most iconic geography of the most important region in ‘Sultans Ascend’ (the seat of the great Empires), got excluded AGAIN.
Flooded Nile Delta also excluded, Ottoman Empire’s Aegean Sea too. All archeological Wonders? Nowhere to see.
Instead of cool history, we get random junk! Beyond unbelievable ocean-sized waste of expansion.