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The Story Of Mansa Musa: The Richest Man in History
Mansa Musa was the ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 14th century—and he was no backwater baron. Thanks to salt, gold, and copper, he had untold, incalculable, immeasurable wealth. Some historians ...
Atlas of Maritime Charts (The Catalan Atlas) [detail of Mansa Musa], Abraham Cresque (1375) Mallorca; parchment mounted on six wood panels, illuminated (Bibliothèque nationale de France) In fact, by ...
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Mansa Musa was not just rich he was a walking empire of gold. When he traveled to Mecca with tens of thousands of men and caravans loaded with gold he flooded Cairo’s economy and crashed the value of ...
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