who was Mansa Musa? and why he was so rich
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Musa's immense wealth can be attributed to the fact that Mali produced staggering quantities of salt and gold. The man is most famous forhis 6500 km trip to Mecca accompanied by a caravan of 60,000 people. The pilgrimage to Hajj is one of legend.
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Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire
His riches came from mining significant salt and gold deposits in the Mali kingdom. ... While in Cairo, Mansa Musa met with the Sultan of Egypt, and his caravan spent and gave away so much gold that the overall value of gold decreased in Egypt for the next 12 years. Stories of his fabulous wealth even reached Europe.
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