Mansa Musa
?–1337 CE · Niani
Mansa Musa ruled the Mali Empire at its height in the early 14th century, presiding over a state that dominated the gold-producing regions of West Africa. His pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, made with a vast entourage and generous distributions of gold, brought Mali to the notice of the wider Islamic and Mediterranean world and placed it on European maps. He promoted Islamic scholarship and building and is associated with the flourishing of Timbuktu and Djenné as centers of learning and trade. He died around 1337.
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Niani
What they did here
He set out from the Mali heartland, associated with the capital at Niani on the Sankarani River, with a very large caravan.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Mansa Musa’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Rulers world
- Robert the Bruce· 1274 CE–1329 CE
- Amda Seyon I· –1344 CE
- Al-Nasir Muhammad· 1285 CE–1341 CE
- Emperor Go-Daigo· 1288 CE–1339 CE
- Ivan I Kalita· 1288 CE–1340 CE
- Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq· –1325 CE
- Osman I· 1254 CE–1324 CE
- Muhammad bin Tughluq· –1351 CE
- Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah· –1320 CE
- Orhan· 1281 CE–1362 CE
- Alauddin Khalji· –1316 CE
- Gajah Mada· –1364 CE
- Raden Wijaya· –1309 CE
- Ashikaga Takauji· 1305 CE–1358 CE
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