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Mansa Musa I of Mali: Gold, Salt, and Storytelling in Medieval West Africa | The Global History of Capitalism
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The Knowledge Archivist on X: "Mansa Musa was rich. How rich? $400, $500, $600 billion in today's money? We don't know the exact number... But we do know that he crushed the
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