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Mansa Musa was the Emperor of Mali in the fourteenth century, he was known for being the richest ruler. He was born around 1230 and died around 1337. Mansa Musa is mostly known for his journey to the Muslim holy city in Mecca where he was introduced him to rulers in the Middle East and in Europe. Musa came to the throne of West Africa’s Mali Empire through a practice of appointing a deputy when a king goes on his pilgrimage to Mecca or journeys somewhere else and later naming the deputy as heir. According to historians, Musa was appointed the deputy of Abubakari II. Musa made his unprecedented fortune by maximizing his country’s salt and gold production. Musa’s rule produced more than half the world’s supply of salt and gold. He had a procession that …show more content…

Musa funded the excursion for all, including dozens of animals. The poor on his route were the recipients of gold from him. Musa’s vast dispensing of gold was so huge that he upset the value of goods in the region. Gold became more plentiful and, therefore, worth less. His leadership of Mali, a state which stretched across two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Chad and which included all or parts of the modern nations of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad, ensured decades of peace and in Western Africa.
Accompanied by thousands of richly dressed servants and supporters Musa made generous donations to the poor and to charitable organizations as well as the rulers of the lands his entourage crossed. During his stop in Cairo ,Egypt he spent so much gold the the value in it declined for a least a decade. Upon his return from Mecca, Mansa Musa brought Arab scholars, government bureaucrats, and architects, the architect Ishaq El Temudjin who introduced advanced building techniques to Mali. He designed

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