The ENTIRE story of history's forgotten wealthiest man in 7 minutes - Mansa Musa

This is the true story of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire a West African kingdom that, at its peak, controlled roughly half of the entire Old World's gold supply. It's the story of a king who inherited his throne after his predecessor allegedly sailed into the Atlantic Ocean and was never seen again, a pilgrimage to Mecca so extravagant it nearly broke Egypt's economy, and a golden age in Timbuktu that made it one of the great intellectual centers of the medieval world and why, by most serious modern estimates, one of the wealthiest individuals in recorded human history still isn't a household name. 00:00 — The King Who Broke an Economy 00:53 — The King Who Sailed Away 01:51 — An Empire Built on Gold and Salt 02:33 — The Journey That Broke an Economy 03:51 — Cairo 04:08 — Mecca and the Return 04:31 — Timbuktu's Golden Age 05:20 — The Man on the Map 05:53 — Why You've Never Heard of Him Sources include the World History Encyclopedia, primary-source accounts from the 14th-century chronicler al-Umari, and modern historical scholarship on the Mali Empire and the 1324 pilgrimage's economic impact. #documentary #history #acienthistory #cairo #wealth #mansamusa #mali #medievalhistory