Sport1 min 22 sec
Leaders · 1300s
How the Richest Man in History Broke Egypt’s Economy
Mansa Musa’s lavish 1324 pilgrimage distributed so much gold in Cairo that contemporary accounts described a prolonged fall in its value.
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The strange part—without losing the facts.
Mansa Musa’s lavish 1324 pilgrimage distributed so much gold in Cairo that contemporary accounts described a prolonged fall in its value.
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