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    1.3 Mansa Musa Bio

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    Mansa Musa came to power in Mali after being appointed deputy when the previous king went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and failed to return. Musa himself went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, bringing 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves carrying gold bars. He gave away so much gold along the way that he drove down gold prices in Egypt and the Middle East. When he returned, he built mosques, universities, and palaces that helped establish Timbuktu as a center of trade, culture, and Islamic learning under his rule. Mali prospered economically and academically during his reign.

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    Mansa Musa came to power in Mali after being appointed deputy when the previous king went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and failed to return. Musa himself went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, bringing 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves carrying gold bars. He gave away so much gold along the way that he drove down gold prices in Egypt and the Middle East. When he returned, he built mosques, universities, and palaces that helped establish Timbuktu as a center of trade, culture, and Islamic learning under his rule. Mali prospered economically and academically during his reign.

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    Mansa Musa came to power in Mali after being appointed deputy when the previous king went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and failed to return. Musa himself went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, bringing 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves carrying gold bars. He gave away so much gold along the way that he drove down gold prices in Egypt and the Middle East. When he returned, he built mosques, universities, and palaces that helped establish Timbuktu as a center of trade, culture, and Islamic learning under his rule. Mali prospered economically and academically during his reign.

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    1.3 Mansa Musa Bio

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    Mansa Musa came to power in Mali after being appointed deputy when the previous king went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and failed to return. Musa himself went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, bringing 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves carrying gold bars. He gave away so much gold along the way that he drove down gold prices in Egypt and the Middle East. When he returned, he built mosques, universities, and palaces that helped establish Timbuktu as a center of trade, culture, and Islamic learning under his rule. Mali prospered economically and academically during his reign.

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    World History

    Mansa Musa

    Born around 1280AD, the man known as Musa was


    the tenth "Mansa" ("King of Kings") of the Mali Empire.
    At the time of Musa's rise to the throne, the Mali Empire
    consisted of lands formerly belonging to the Ghana
    Empire. Musa was the wealthiest ruler of his day and
    one of the wealthiest people of all time.

    Mansa Musa came to the throne of Mali through


    the practice of appointing a deputy when a king went on
    pilgrimage to Mecca; that deputy would later be named
    as heir. According to scholars of the time, Musa was
    appointed to serve as deputy when the king embarked
    on an expedition to explore the limits of the Atlantic
    Ocean. When that king failed to return, Musa was
    During his long return journey from Mecca in 1325,
    proclaimed leader of the Mali Empire.
    Musa heard news that his army had recaptured the city
    Musa was a devout Muslim and his pilgrimage to of Gao, which had long been an important - although
    Mecca, required under the core teachings of Islam, rebellious - trading center. Musa made a detour and
    made him well-known across both northern Africa and visited the city where he received, as hostages, the two
    the Middle East. Making his pilgrimage in 1324, Musa's song of the Gao king. Musa later educated them at his
    caravan was said to have included 60 thousand men, 12 court.
    thousand slaves (each of whom carried 4-pound gold
    Having returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca,
    bars), and assistants dressed in silks who carried gold
    Musa started a large building program, constructing
    staffs. Also in the caravan were 80 camels, reportedly
    mosques in Timbuktu and Gao. Most famously, the
    carrying between 50 and 300 pounds of gold dust each.
    ancient center of learning known as Sankore Madrasah
    Musa himself provided all of the necessities for the
    was built during his reign. Under the guidance of
    caravan, feeding the entire company of men and
    architects from Andalusia, Spain, Musa also build his
    animals. During the journey to Mecca, Musa gave gold
    grand palace in Timbuktu, as well as the Djinguereber
    to the poor he met along the road and is said to have
    Mosque that still stands today.
    built a mosque each and every Friday.
    Under the reign of Mansa Musa, Timbuktu became Although Mansa Musa died around 1337, his rule
    a center of trade, culture, and Islamic scholarship. started an intellectual and economic expansion that
    Markets brought in merchants from Nigeria, Egypt, and would continue in Mali until the later middle ages.
    other African kingdoms and a university was founded in Under Musa, Mali was established as an economic
    the city, allowing Islam to spread rapidly throughout the "global power" and one of the academic capitals of the
    region. News of Timbuktu's wealth traveled across the world. Musa's military campaigns allowed Mali to
    Mediterranean to southern Europe, where traders from become the most powerful kingdom in Africa, rivaled
    Venice, Granada, and Genoa soon added Timbuktu to only by Morocco and Egypt.
    their list of places to trade manufactured goods in
    exchange for gold.

    1. How did Mansa Musa come to the throne of Mali?

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    2. Why did Musa make a pilgrimage to Mecca?

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    3. What is Musa said to have done while making his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324?

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    4. How did the city of Timbuktu become a center of trade and culture during Musa's reign?

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    5. Explain ways in which the empire of Mali benefitted from the reign of Mansa Musa.

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