King Mansa Musa Research Paper

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King Mansa Musa is a very important king for Mali, he also was the nephew of Sundiata. King Mansa Musa, I ruled the Mali empire in the 14 century. King Mansa went on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 to increase the religion of Islam and, since he went on the pilgrimage to mecca people from Asia, Egypt, and other places went to Mali which helped with a trade.Mansa Musa supported education as much as he did for religion. Scholars started to set up schools to teach about the Quran. People in Mali learned how to write and speak in Arabic.

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