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Mansa Musa of Mali made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 with a caravan chroniclers put at 60,000 people; his spending and gifts in Cairo were reportedly so great that they lowered the value of gold there for at least twelve years. Mali controlled gold, copper and salt sources and the trans-Saharan routes, and Musa helped make Timbuktu a centre of trade and Islamic learning.
The mechanism
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How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE CAPTURE 313 to 1302
- SourcesRECORD — Britannica, 'Musa I of Mali' · checked 19 September: Britannica (read in a browser; WebFetch is refused by the site), 'Musa I of Mali'; Britannica (read in a browser; WebFetch is refused by the site), 'Mali empire' (Taghaza salt); al-Umari on Mansa Musa in Cairo, from Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus (1981) pp. 269-73, Al Akhawayn University PDF