Mansa Musa Dbq Essay

Mansa Musa was one of the most wealthy leaders in all the world with over 600 billion dollars in gold, with great power over all his citizens, and to extend this he went on his hajj to show people how rich and powerful he was. Mansa Musa did not go on his hajj just for religious reasons he also went on the hajj to show the people of Africa how wealthy and powerful he was.

One of the documents that show that why he didn't just go for religious reasons is document A, where it shows all the supplies he brought on his trip. It shows that he brought over 24,000 pounds of gold for alms giving, gifts, salaries, and supplies, even though he would have used the gold for these purposes, he would have probably only have used almost half of the gold for those purposes. Instead he would use it to give out to all the citizens of egypt and other towns and villages, and this is true because he didn't have any other remaining gold and if it was a religious journey he wouldn't bring 24,000 pound of gold to give out to all the people and stop his religious journey. The next document that shows that is hajj isn't just a religious journey is document B, where is shows the map of Mansa Musa's journey, this shows that it wasn't just a religious journey because he went through the city of Taghaza. This is bad because Taghaza is a slave place with slaves working all day to mine salt. He probably did journey to this location to buy salt and slaves to work for him, and even if he didn't, he would have just went straight to cairo, going through Timbuktu and Takedda. The last document that shows his hajj wasn't just for religious reasons is document E, …show more content…
Mansa Musa did not go on his hajj just for religious reason he also went on the hajj to show the people of Africa how rich and powerful he