How Mansa Musa searched for Mecca? | Mansa Musa - The Richest Man that Ever Existed
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Mansa Musa NEVER EXISTED. Not a SINGLE piece of gold in the ENTIRE WORLD can be attributed to him. If he was so rich, where did ALL the gold he distributed go?
You didn’t even claim a number 😂 or how did someone come up with that number, and opinion.
@@dirkjensen969 great, this fool again...
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@@dirkjensen969 keep coping
he searched for Mecca through trade routes, everybody knows it: entering a Golden Age permanently grants +1 Trade Route Trade Route capacity, and he had plenty of gold to be in a permanent golden age.
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Truly, a man of culture
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I thought Civ
“You gettin' ate up , you should’ve battled me on Ramadan!“ - Mansa Musa
Ayyy, ERB of History 🎉
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A lot of these comments are proof that even if Hollywood made stories about black people, instead of shoehorning them into other people's stories, y'all would still complain.
Exactly haters gonna hate. You can’t please them so forget them.
agreed
“Recent research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata and the Lion of Mali II, but today he is usually referred to as Mansa Musa.”
― Charles River
I don't get it
Elon Musk has thousands of satellites in orbit and the space rock company that sends up more material in orbit than any country or company, car company and twitter.
just because he had a lot of gold that can be used as currency and jewelry don’t make him the richest because a person claims so
@@MeepMeep88read it again.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 K, still don't get it.
18 tons of gold which he is claimed to have taken with him on the trip to Mecca is if you buy it from a gold price today worth about 1 billion dollars depending on the day not 400 billion dollars as they claim he had, just the usual misinformation for whatever reason, don’t get me wrong if it was real true he had 1 billion dollars worth of gold it was impressive, what is not impressive is making up stories, 18 tons of gold doesn’t make you the richest person who ever lived, I don’t care what they did to make 1 billion dollars into 400 billion dollars, probably their grandma told them that he was the richest person in history and they should not believe what other people say 😂 Cleopatra historian must have been working hard to make new stories about what grandma said 😂
Is this the guy who goes on tour to let everyone know???
Well, then wow! This guy is rich!
@@dirkjensen969 That is what they call circulation. Also how on earth do we track gold dust? That would have been spent by these people, and later minted into coins of Egypt and the surrounding region
@@dirkjensen969 are you then just going to state it was false based on gold alone when there were accounts written by Muslim scholars about these events?
@@dirkjensen969 also, by that logic, where is the gold for the Ashanti Empire? This gold was not made into gold ornaments. It was traded by traders, whilst people like the Ashanti made theirs into statues and ornaments
@@dirkjensen969 because the Mali Empire did not make any gold ornaments. Also, when something can be backed up with valid sources, something that has been lacking when looking into African history, then I do have a problem with it.
@@dirkjensen969 Also, parts of the Golden Stool don't actually come from the Ashanti. Bodwich mentions how two masks on the stool came from the Ashanti melting the Gyaman golden stool to make these
He could have invested some of his networth toh his kingdom to make it one of the advanced and richest kingdom ever
He did.
He did. Timbuktu didn't only become the center for learning astronomy and science in the Muslim world, but the whole world. Timbuktu had become synonomous as a place of prosperity and harmony like Shangri-La except it was real.
@@IStevenSeagalFantasy.
@@JsJdvUhh no?
yeah he should have build high speed trains.
Now this guy knew how to shift some slaves.
So rich he made gold useless for 10 years
Why don't netflix make a movie about him instead of turning Alexander black?
Apparently, Michael B Jordan is preparing to release a film about this traitor.
Probably because he was a devout muslim who literally went on this trip in the first place to visit the holy sites of Islam.
What black Alexander? Because the only netflix production that's come out recently is Alexander: The Making of a God where Alexander is played by a white blonde English guy.
Are you referring to Achilles
Will you do a video for the empires and kingdoms in west Africa
I'm glad you didn't uncritically repeat the myth of Al-Sahili and foreigners having a substantial impact on Sudano-Sahelian architecture, which the evidence contradicts and can be read about in academic papers like "Al-Sahili : the historian's myth of architectural technology transfer from North Africa" by Suzan B. Aradeon and "AN ANDALUSIAN IN MALI: A contribution to the biography of Abū Ishāq al-Sāhilī, c. 1290-1346" by historian J. O. HUNWICK/
The only project Al-Sahili is known to have been involved with was Musa's audience chamber, and his involvement may have been more organizational than architectural.
In fact, seeing dogon shrines, that may have either influenced it or been influenced
His predecessor colonized Brazil and Mexico 💪🏾
To be fair, there were hundreds of emperors and kings who lived in the past who could have been richer than Mansa Musa; it was just that he flaunted his wealth, in way no one has and was documented as a result.
Yes, but did achieve his goal to entice scholars to his court
@@joshuafrimpong244 So did Bagdad, Istanbul, Vijaynagara, Nalanda, Rome, Mecca and many more. Mansa Musa having so much wealth indicates inequality in the empire, and he had slaves.
@@EshaanAtre "Mansa Musa having so much wealth indicates inequality in the empire, and he had slaves."
So tell me why this is expressly a bad thing at the time? Of course there was wealth inequality, there has always been wealth inequality, and only the poorest of African kings wouldn't have a large retinue of slaves.
@@joshuafrimpong244 It was clear from his wealth that he could and had sunk the value of gold in Egypt, causing hyperinflation in the Mamluk Sultanate. Regarding your question, "So tell me why this is expressly a bad thing at the time?" it depends on whom you are addressing. Are you referring to Mansa Musa himself, his subjects, or other kingdoms? Could you please clarify?
@@EshaanAtre I mean for mansa Musa
All hats to you mansa musa you were a very powerful man in your time
Exactly💯💯💯👍👍👍
He was stunting way to hard😂😂😂He made white people come and loot. Should have been low key about his counties wealth. You know it's bad news when a black man is on a map holding a golden nugget. They are coming to steal
we wuz rich n shiet
@@dirkjensen969 How stupid are you? Multiple documents are attributed to him, and how the hell are you going to attribute a "crown" (which Mali did not use) and gold coins (which he did not mint) to him
@@dirkjensen969 he did
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁😀
Thank you! Will do!
@@Knowledgia Just curious, but why did the people in Egypt loan back the gold to Mansa Musa for his return trip? Sure they would get interest, but the Mali Empire was such a long way away and thus be difficult to get those interest payments. Also there was no guarantee that Mansa Musa wouldn't be overthrown and be replaced by another ruler who wouldn't honor the loans. Far better to travel to India and trade that gold for spices or something or at least keep that gold (that was given away for free) and wait for gold prices to return to normal.
May Allah Grant him the Highest Rank in Jannah
but he was a slave trader. So no Jannah for him.
@@am-mm2sl literally so was all pre-colonial African rulers. I do not hold it against him
@@am-mm2slconfused and alone?
@@joshuafrimpong244 yes I know that. But he is never going to see paradise.
@@momezzy8864 dude what did I say wrong? I'm a Muslim myself, but I just wanna acknowledge that he was a slave trader. Did I say anything bad against religion? I don't think so. But I have my own brain which tells me that this guy is a bad person.
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I thought it was forbidden to wear gold in the Islamic religion, can someone correct me on this?
2 answers:
They depicted him wearing gold. or
Or he just didnt listen/ know that.
it's forbidden to wear gold for men only. About Mansa Musa we know little about him ... since he was deviate muslim he may never wore any gold.
If you follow that route of countries today, you will simply find out that it is only one place, in one country, that had and still has lots of gold erupting from the ground even as at 2024.... with lots of Chinese there exploring as we speak..and that is zamfara, in zamfara state, in hausa speaking part of Nigeria. In other words, it was Nigerian gold that was mansa Musa"s gold.. if you know you know .
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Reckless spending on luxury items and exaggerated displays of wealth leading to eventual poverty..... Sounds like every rap star ever. I guess some people never change
Lol you're literally comparing a leanered and wealthy medieval monarch who went on a holy pilgrimage to a modern day rap star. Money comes and goes, he's not the first king to have financial problems and his legacy is still present in timbuktu to this day. Try to achieve at least tiny fraction of what he achieved in your life and maybe people will jelously compare you to silly rap stars on youtube centuries from now. Let us know how you get on.
You just copied this from someone else. At least have some originality
I am surprised the Spanish or Portugues or another greedy euro didn't invade and steal all the gold. Thinking the Aztecs, Inkas, etc.
Meanwhile that's literally what Mansa's predecessors were doing. Europe was too busy fighting each other and fending off the Golden Horde from mongol Asia on their own doorstep in those years, only to be ravaged by the black plague around Mussas decline. Exploration and colonization was only brought about during the enlightenment a century and a half later when things settled down.
They did later in the 16th century. My Syrian father said Africa could've become the most richest, prosperous place on earth today if it werent for Europe and America pilaging its blessings. 16th century that's when it started to change in Africa and it goes on still.
@WilliamTobyBruce Then you missed huge gaps in history that have formed the modern world we live in today. Europeans were the ones that went around colonizing and ginocyding at the same time. When it comes that land it was done under the Portuguese. Mauritania were only warring against Mali. Under Muslim rule you had the richest man in history Mansa Musa, Mali empire, kingdom of Ghana and center of knowledge Timbuktu. Because In Islaam it is taught to seek and spread knowledge, and that all races are equals except by their action and piety to the Supreme God Allah.
@@IStevenSeagal Grandfather say it not rain everyday!
do you have place where people can veiw the maps in your vids ?
Still no Skanderbeg part 2?
So, instead of leaving a trail of breadcrumbs, he left gold?
Unfortunately he also profited from slavery.
Yeah that was very uncommon at that time!
@@olvarojj4509it's the 13th century and even black own slaves and prisoners of war are slaves and it doesn't matter what's your skin colour....
but only Europeans are bad when slavery, ar*bs good
he very could've invested his wealth into military
No way of knowing if he did or not he obviously invested it into his own empire
He was accompanied by his most elite troops on his journey to Mecca.
Funny how these type of comments only pop up when discussing a black/african historical figure/civilization
2 and a half century later, the Moroccans conquered the region
And then only a century later they were kicked out
@SOULAANI_fact
And then led Timbuktu into a dark age
3:39 Imagine if Mansa Musa began colonizing Central America if that expedition was successful
if he did that, the arabs and the turks would rush for land in the americas, perhaps we'd see a muslim america today if that happened.
Damm Why so much hate in the comment section??
You know why.
@@RodneyNoname-nw3ff no if I did I would not ask.
@@bernard8793Because it’s a video on black history! Some trolls love mocking black folks and can’t cope with the fact this history exists.
Their should be a movie about this ! or tv show !
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The King of Mali is really rich! And he's going on tour to tell everyone how rich he is!
Richest man is a different game.You can compare Crassus,Octavian that had most money in an important system or John Rockefeller,Jacob Fugger if we are talking about civilians.Rotschild family included.Maybe even Putin as a leader today,man has 1/9 of the planet as his playground.
Putin indirectly lords over Kazakhstan very effectively and to a lesser extent Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
China, Afghanistan and Pakistan have a great deal of influence on the steppes but Russia is likely more dominant than Afghanistan.
I think "half of Asia" is more than 1/9 of the world. 3/4 of the world is ocean.....well maybe.
He does not direct the written laws of Eastern Europe but he exerts influence and power over the region enough so that policies are warped being overshadowed by him.
The entire Israeli Palestinian war is a smaller theater of global affairs.
I think he rules over perhaps 1/8 or even as much as 1/7 of the world.
China is a better candidate for a piece as small as 1/9.
China, India, and Russia put together are easily 50%.
Dude really said confidently that he was the richest lol, or ig the actual richest doesn't want to be known so this dude gets fooled
what u smoking bro
@@acey457western copium
Cope
Manssa musa almost put egypt in a huge debt bec of over supply of gold 😅
No, they inflated the economy
Mansa Musa? Never heard of him.
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Musa, not Muza. Mussa, s not z. Please, this is a very common name in Africa and the Middle East. 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
They cant spell Jesus without calling him "Djjezuz".
@@IStevenSeagal *Jizz-us
Ma sha Allah
Great man
RICHEST Muslim man on earth 🌎
Respect from India 😉😎
Suleiman A.S is the richest Muslim in Quran
@@TrickXxl yes
too bad the wealth didnt transfer….black dollar till this day leaves r people faster than any other…. the Sahel is here to turn th tables back✊🏾
What if Mansa Musa's Mali Empire discovered Brazil in 1324 when they voyaged West to see what was there? Which would make sense as to why the Portuguese were able to conquer so much land being such a small nation in comparison and why they didn't have troubles with the Indians since disease would have already spread leaving it mostly empty for them to conquer. The Amazon and the Andes Mountains would have acted like a wall preventing disease to spread. Also what if they brought the Black Death back from the New World on their voyage just in time for it to spread soon after?
They supposedly did find gold tipped spears in S. America which are only found in Africa. Mansa spoke his predecessor did indeed travel to new found lands.
Also if you look on a map the shortest 2 points of the 'New World' and 'Old World' are exactly were the Mali Empires coast is todays Senegal and Guinea Bissau to Brazils Cities of Natal and Recife. Since the Portuguese colonized Guinea Bissau that is where they could have got the idea. They did asked to pope to amend the treaty of tordesillas to include more of the western hemisphere for Portugal perhaps for that very purpose of them already knowing. Both the Trade Winds and the Ocean Currents make it ideal to travel as they both circulate from those 2 points.
Also I don't see Mansa Abu Bakr taking a Royal Expedition of 500 ships into the Atlantic ocean without having prior knowledge that something was there first.
If some actually made it to south america then they would have made a lot of towns and cities. There is no trace of such settlements.
I am never convinced of any truth to these claims. We went from kingdom to kingdom throwing around gold but he has no lasting world impact, no power or advancement of his people recorded outside a few education centers that didn't seem to become long lasting. There really was never proof he was all that rich, especially compared to a Persian, Han or Roman Emperor. Seems like he went on a faith based trip to Vegas and flaunted his wealth everywhere, but who knows how much he really had.
There are accounts on it, and just remember: he ran out of money
Damn you scream racist. Why would all these different countries lie especially Egypt.
It wasn't a holiday, it was something derived from his deep faith in Islam, something that was mandatory
@@joshuafrimpong244 The fact he took 60k men, slaves and abundance of gold tells me it was not much for faith, but to show off what he had.
@@Vandelberger that was to intice scholars with the amount of gold, slaves, and other commodities that were in his kingdom, and it did work. Timbuktu was one of the greatest cities in the Muslim world, many of his monuments still exist today, and Mali was at its peak. However, even the local griots that folowed the old religion did state that he was a foolsih king that spent the treasury for the sake of Islam
What a fool he should have been investing in his empire,advancing his empire into a new era and uniting Africa but he went off spending like a
He did invest. It was under his reign that the Sankore Madrasa was built to encourage learning, the Djinguereber Mosque was created to foster Islam, and he brought scholars to Mali to bring it into line with the rest of the Islamic world. It was his son and said son's sons that would plunge Mali into decline
They wouldnt have had the means to unite africa.That takes a bit more than money.
@@nope7120 Africa itself is very diverse
@@nope7120 And also many of these groups despise one another, so that would straight up be an impossibility
@@joshuafrimpong244 agreed
good effort but the writing is very chatGPT
Sigh, Mansa Mussa wasn't the richest man to live.. He wasn't even the richest man living in his era. Estimates of Mussas wealth is in the hundreds of billions (around 400 billion) while Genghis Kahn is estimated in the hundreds of trillions.
I would say that he was wealthy, but probably not the richest. That is hard to measure
@@joshuafrimpong244 Mansa Mussa was without a doubt a very wealthy king
What about king Solomon ?
what about emperor of rome? muslim khalifah? president of soviet union? king/queen of empire of england?
@@GBTWC another wealthy man
Mansa Musa facilitated the eternal damnation of all native peoples on the continent, enabling Islamic forces to perforate the securities of other kingdoms, and, subsequently, forfeit most of those riches which he attempted to claim over to Sultans in Arabia. He was liked by Middle Eastern scholars because he was their favored fool.
The richest person in history was a german banker called Jakob Fugger. Mansa Musah was the 2nd.
You cannot compare people's wealth like that. Yes maybe in a modern western democracy, but not with other countries or with historical figures. For example, how wealthy is a absolute monarch who owns an entire country? Or how wealthy is Vlademir Putin today? On paper he has just a few million euros but nevertheless he built entire luxury palaces with tax money for himself. How do you define his wealth? How do you define the wealth of a roman emperor? Genghis Khan rules the biggest empire the world has ever seen. You think a German banker was wealthier?
I think there are much more People that are richer than Mansa Musa.
The Truth Hurts!!!
Nice argument Senator, why don't you back it up with a source?
@@NateBlade17 To be clear, he's only expressing scepticism and so doesn't need a source. A source is needed to prove Musa was the richest man in history. Looking on Google Scholar seems to provide no serious economic history work comparing him with others by adjusted wealth.
@@nickelmouse451 Thank you.
yes, I do agree
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Seems like more legend and creative thinking by modern historians than fact.
There are primary documents and accounts that support every popular claim about the richest man to ever live 🤴🏾
@TheRoundtable_RTG who had to borrow money on the way back. Yeah makes sense.
@@richardvaldes3959 10:44 “debatable though, is what occurred when the Mansa crossed back through Cairo” the narrator continuously repeats that these were claims. 11:34 then narrator goes onto to say the reality of these claims are “haughtily debated“. 🤴🏾🔥
What history isn't based on myth and legend. We can never know the exact facts about anybody from the past if you want to be honest about it.
@TheRoundtable_RTG do you understand the term " debated" you realize that doesn't mean one way or the other right. Just cause you want there to be an African kind so you can clutch onto that thought at night doesn't make it true
Power of True African❤
Instead of searching for mecca he should have invaded other less developed Areas of Africa. Created a massive empire civilise the rest of the uncivilised and put us on the global map long before colonisation. There were literally very arable land south of the sahel to me he lacks ambition and prioritised his sky daddy over an empire
Going to mecca is a requirement of his faith not a holiday. Many African nations and kingdoms were already civilised. He contributed to African civilization by building learning centers in timbuktu that was attended by students from many countries. Knowledge is better than the sword.
Not easy. The Mali empire relied on cavalry as it was one of the strongest and the pride of its military, but horses do nothing against the tsetse fly, which would have made the conquest extremely difficult. Also, they would lose customers if they did that, and with overextending their empire
Mansa Musa expanded his empire. That being said who told you any kingdom or culture outside of Mali in black Africa was “uncivilised”?
He was poor since did no investstment on ship building🛶 and science🤷🏽 nor human resources
tf
Bro invaded and conquered nothing south of the sahel. Leaving arable land to less civilised tribes. Smh
*His nickname was king of gold*
All that wealth but he didn't even build a single massive parking lot or walmart, let alone an entire continent's worth. Sounds pretty broke to me... HOOAAHHH
He should have used all the money to build a great country or unite africa.
That's literally what he did. Which vidio were you watching?
its the middle ages.He wouldnt have been able to unite africa.No money could build a good enough infrastructure to hold such a massive empire back then in that terrain.
africa can't be unified in 2024 how do u think they would do it in 1300
What do you mean unite africa? That is literally an impossible thing to do, back then and now. There were already other civilised and prosperous African nations who wouldn't accept a foreign invasion just cause mansa musa is from the same continent.
Mansa Munsa mecca stecca decca pecca wecca slecca wecca jecca Becca plecca dlecca
The Truth Hurts!!!
When Wakanda was real.
Mansa Musa was actually white with ginger hair, the whole thing has been debunked sorry lmao
Cope harder how did a white get to west Africa you are delusional
Lmao
😂😂 You watch too much Robert Sepehr videos lad. That’s a fantasy sorry.
So he was Muslim and devout one but he didnt know where Muslim holy city of Mecca is, this just shows you how Islam was spread with nothing but a sword.
Logical fallacy, don't know how you to came to that conclusion
True@@Yam_Yam305
you clearly are not a smart one
Correct @@abdulHaqqqq
You know that maps and navagation was nothing compared to today. He could have not known where it was especially since he came from such a far place.
The title is incorrect grammar
So is yours 🤡
Mansa Musa was also one of the largest slave owners in human history
ok?
Cope lol 😂
And?
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Cope
Now cope harder
Also, we do not need another stupid American politicising everything they see dear to them on history, thank you.
6th grade history class
Irestan is a great Islamic nation
@WilliamTobyBruce sounds terrible. All those tanned people bringing their delicious food.
@@cosmic_jonand more crime and low iq
Nah, Rockefeller was the richest person in history. Especially because we have hard numbers for his wealth and....less such for Mande Munda here.
Yes, I misspelled his name. Oh well, you know who I'm talking about
@@bandit6272of course a EUROCENTRIC WILL create false information
No he isn't the man at the top of this video is not rockerfell
Nah bruh we talking about gold. Cockefeller was worth about $280 bil and Mansa Musa was worth $400 bil.
jews😂
This is not history...
Yes it is stop hating
@Nolian!
The Truth Hurts!!!
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@@justinsandolph4861bro these wypipo be so mad. I salute the makers of this video for not trying to hide this history
Well, it's complicated. There are very few sources about him. The story is definitely mixed with legends. The numbers (amount of gold and number of servants) are not believable. I doubt the chroniclers had any access to the accounting books.
The richest man that ever existed? GTFO
Very rich at least
Went to the club dressed like a rich man, spent his entire paycheck on fools and then had to borrow gas money to get home.
Your just jealous that a black muslim man was richer than possibly anyone in history.
Ask him for reparations 😂