Tell me about Mali and Mansa Musa and his apparently copious amounts of gold.
He's the equivalent of the gate toll keeper at the Al-Kharid gate, ie does fucking nothing and rakes in the cash.
>>1279131
Basically like modern Norway or Saudi Arabia, but with gold instead of oil.
>>1279139
Mali wasn't one of the salt trade empires though.
>>1279278
Natron was a huge deal.
LWUZ
When he mad his Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca the price of gold was deflated along the route he took for the next 100 years. He basically gave it away to everyone he met. There was a convoy of hundreds of camels all carrying gold. Must have been quite a site.
>>1279908
really makes you think
