Mansa Musa confirmed as richest man of all time. How is this possible

Mansa Musa confirmed as richest man of all time. How is this possible

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There's a reason we colonized Africa. It's pretty damn rich in minerals. Even a downy could be rich being the ruler of that land.

This.

Africa is the richest continent. They are just too stupid to pick up a pickaxe while sitting on a gold mine.

A ludicrous amount of gold. His kingdom was situated near massive sources of it.

>Never invested any money in his country
>Pisspoor for the rest of history.
Lel

>He also founded mosques and schools along the route of his journey. And he brought back scholars to help found a university in Timbuktu that was soon one of the leading academic centers in the Islamic world.

>He also brought back architects and artisans to build libraries, palaces, and mosques, many of which still survive. At its height, the university had about 25,000 students, and the library held perhaps a million manuscripts, the largest in Africa since the destruction of the great library of Alexandria in ancient times

He found himself sitting on the biggest gold mine ever. And gold was much more valuable back then than is is now.

You would think he would have actually transformed his nation into a marvel.

No, he travelled to Mecca with his wealth, wasted everything and crashed the mediterannean economy. Two generations later, it was back to wood and cow shit.

>Niggers

>be sand nigger
>live in a desert with nothing but salt and gold
>so much salt you could build houses from it
>sell that shit in the coastal regions where salt is expensive
>enslave everyone you come across

rich yo

He stole it

Lots of slavery, he was a good Muslim after all

>Musa made his pilgrimage between 1324–1325.[15][16] His procession reportedly included 60,000 men, including 12,000 slaves who each carried four pounds of gold bars and heralds dressed in silks who bore gold staffs, organized horses, and handled bags.

>But Musa's generous actions inadvertently devastated the economy of the regions through which he passed. In the cities of Cairo, Medina, and Mecca, the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade. Prices on goods and wares greatly inflated. To rectify the gold market, on his way back from Mecca, Musa borrowed all the gold he could carry from money-lenders in Cairo, at high interest. This is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the Mediterranean.

>Mansa Musa confirmed as richest man of all time.

The living embodiment of the term "nigger rich'.

Bullshit, Genghis Kahn, and Kublai Kahn had the largest empire in world history, they were the richest.

So Mansa Musa was essentially the first one-hit wonder rapper? He shone for a hot minute and then everything he built cratered.

julius caesar was tbqh

The Power of 4

Did they have a shitload of gold, salt and slaves?

WE

>mongols
>largest empire in history

Wrong, you ignorant kid.

That mud palace in the background, really luxurious

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Wasn't the richest person of all time (adjusted for inflation), Julius Caesar?

Yeah, no cunt. No matter how much black revision you think you own, its all stolen

Also being " richest person in history" is actually a massive insult and shame and not a compliment.

Remind me what he did with that money?

Go back to your goldmine, Mongo Mugombo

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look it up faggot, they had the largest land size for an empire

Keep seeing this more and more as of late and same as the first time I saw it, I'm pretty sure it's bullshit. Partly because it's not a relative wealth, partly because I've seen strong evidence that puts forward Crassus as the richest known person in history.

>it's a WE WUZ bait thread

Took a pilgrimage to Mecca, chucked all his gold because there was so much of it his slaves were dying carrying it all and in so doing, the dumping of his gold fucked up the entire north African economy

If only the kids into socialist/communism understood this.

>richest man of all time
>this was his magnum opus in contribution towards african civilization and architecture
really makes you think

by population percentage for sure

> I'm pretty sure it's bullshit


i wonder who can be behind this

The Mongols had the largest CONTIGUOUS land empire yes, but Nigel is right to scoff as the British Empire had the most clay to their name.

>He actually wuz a kang.

>borrowed all the gold he could carry from money-lenders in Cairo, at high interest

No. Caesar lost his family's fortune when he was disinherited by Sulla during the dictatorship. You're thinking of Crassus, who made an insane amount of money when Sulla was busy putting his political rivals into the ground.

looks like paper máche desu

Didn't he build most of this wealth on the backs of black slaves? Is this mentioned?

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Yeah it's pretty sad.. An entire continent so terribly mismanaged because blacks don't lift a finger unless they have to, and not even thinking about how they could use all those things that was available.. or invent something to help them.. It's just incredible..

Even the soil just turns to crap because they don't into agriculture.

Meanwhile they trot up Mansa Musa and go look we wuz kings.. Ok great example to set for blacks.. sit on your ass and expect to get rich by not doing a damn thing.

>hey hol up.. you lied to me nigguh.. i've been sitting my ass where my fucking goldmine at bitch? You told me i was going to get rich..

That Mansa Musa managed to spend the gold in such a ludicrous fashion is hilarious.. Goes to nearest place and crashes the goldmarket instead of doing far away trade to people more interested in it with more lucrative returns..

But no what does he do..
>i got the gold bitches i got the goold, let me crash your market lalalalala woohoo i got the gold bitches..

>you're devaluing your primary trading ressource you idiot
>ahhh shiieeeeeeeett

Alexander was richer.

God I hope the local bandits don't do over his little plot. Good luck Gardeno

>imblyign Stalin was jewish

Goddamn Sup Forums is stupid. While Africa is a big continent full of resources that isn't the reason Mali was rich nor was it particularly helpful to Africans. You see metals are nice and shit but metals don't help much to hunter gatherers. Africa is a big continent but when it comes to farming or travel the vast majority of it is shit. There is the Nile valley sure but besides that you have the Sahara desert (deserts tend to be a shitty place to farm), South African bush (dry scrubland is also shitty for farming), and the Congo jungle (in addition to mosquito borne diseases jungles have extremely infertile soil). So while South Africans would have been set had they developed civilization developing civilization without a nice farmland and access to other cultures to trade with would have been next to impossible.

LUCK

maybe they're all on one side of the water

>we have all the materials but we didn't use them.. so africa is shiiieeet..
Really.. what you're describing is more mismanagement/no management than anything else, or shall we say lack of giving a fuck in the first place about inventing anything, about improving your situation etc.

Literally you just tried to say that most of the african continent is impossible to develope farmland on..

No not at all, but the africans, the people who inhabit it, made next to no effort to maintain it or to develope it.. they seemed to just sit there having no clue or motivation to do anything for the longest longest time way before people even came visiting.

That process can be turned around and the soil can be made farmable again.