Mansa Musa Dbq Analysis

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Imagine being the richest man in North Africa. Mansa Musa was not only this but a ruler and a very religious muslim. Mansa Musa was a very rich African emperor who walked all the way from his Kingdom of Mali to Cairo then eventually to Mecca with the goal to follow his religious guidelines of giving away 2.5 percent of his whole wealth and completing his holy pilgrimage. Mansa Musa gave away a total of roughly 4.2 billion dollars worth of gold during his pilgrimage, and that was only 2.5 percent of his entire wealth. “They exchanged gold until they depressed its value in Egypt and caused its price to fall.” (Document E) He also may have done this because “Those that give alms by night and by day, in private and in public, shall be

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