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Mansa Musa's Hajj Gold: The True Scale of 1324
In 1324, Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire set out on the hajj to Mecca, taking with him a caravan of staggering wealth. This episode of Fexingo History digs into the precise amount of gold he carried—from 100 camel-loads to the more than 8,000 pounds of pure gold documented in Cairo. Lucas and Luna explore how the chronicler al-Maqrizi recorded the crash in gold prices, how Mansa Musa's spending shook the Mamluk economy, and what the Catalan Atlas reveals about Mali's global reach. They consider debates among historians over the true scale of the gold, the role of the farba…
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