Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire was the Richest king in history
Mansa Musa the wealthy king of the Mali Empire
Mansa Musa also known as Musa I and he was the ninth Islamic ancient Emperor of West Africa in a kingdom known as the Mali Empire. Mansa means (King or Emperor) and he was ruling the Mali kingdom from the C.E 1312 to 1337 around 25 years.
During his monarchy Musa or Musa I was highly powered and the richest individual king in the world who was holding the wealthy empire of Mali which is located in Africa. He is been well known in ancient history for being the wealthiest king and though it’s been said that his wealth was so much that it’s cannot be measured or compared to anyone’s wealth in the historical records. His wealth was approximately calculated as about similar to 400 billion US dollars which are believed to be the richest man ever.
During the kingdom of Musa, the Mali empire was spread in the large territory of the Ghana Empire after defeating and occupied, and also the other lands include Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Gambia. Musa was a religious person who spends his time spreading and growing Islam within his kingdom.
He was a pious Muslim and he made his way to the Mecca Pilgrimage for hajj between 1324–1325 covering 2,700 miles along with his peoples of about 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves. Each of them carried around 1.8 kg gold bars and all dressed in silks with horses and carrying bags. Musa has been the richest king had given all the necessities and requirements to those 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves while travelling to Mecca for hajj and also feed the entire troops of men and animals at his own expense. Along with horses, there were 80 camels also which carried 23–136kg of gold dust each. More
