SYMHC Classics: Mansa Musa and the City of Gold

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Today's episode revisits a Sarah and Deblina episode that revisits a tale of incredible wealth. When emperor Mansa Musa went on a pilgramage from Timbuktu to Mecca, he gave away so much gold that he crashed the gold market in Cairo.

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0:00.0	And now for today's Roblox Winter Weather Alert,
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0:33.2	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:35.0	Today's episode is from 2010 back when Sarah and DeBlena were hosts of the show.
0:40.2	It is about Moussa, the first of Mali, also known as Manson Moussa.
0:45.8	And it continues to be one of our most popular listener requests
0:49.1	when folks write in to ask about African history.
0:52.4	We do have a little update on this episode.
0:54.7	Sarah and DeBlena talk about UNESCO World Heritage sites in Timbuktu
0:59.0	that were threatened by desert encroachment and a lack of upkeep.
1:02.8	In the spring of 2012, these sites were further threatened by several militant
1:07.0	and extremist Islamist groups, which began destroying some of them
1:10.7	on the grounds that they were examples of idolatry.
1:13.8	The French military intervened and unrest has continued in the years since then.
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