Mansa Musa reaches Cairo on hajj
July 1324
The Mali emperor entered Egypt with a caravan reportedly sixty thousand strong, eighty camels bearing gold dust. He distributed alms so lavishly that Cairo's gold price collapsed for a decade, an extraordinary feat of unintentional economic disruption. Arab geographers gaped. Mali suddenly appeared on European mappae mundi as a kingdom rich enough to matter.
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Also in 1324 (3 other events on record)
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- Mansa Musa crashes the Egyptian gold market · Africa · Politics
- Marsilius of Padua publishes Defensor Pacis · Europe · Culture
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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