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In 1312 Musa became emperor following the death of his predecessor, Abu-Bakr II. When he was crowned, he was given the name Mansa which means king.
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Mansa Musa was knowledgeable in Arabic and was described as a Muslim traditionalist.
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im 1312 Musa became emperor following the death of his predecessor, Abu-Bakr II. When he was crowned, he was given the name Mansa meaning king.
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Mansa Musa was born in 1280, Mansa Musa , fourteenth century emperor of the Mali empire, is the medieval Africa ruler most know to the world Africa
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His elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324 introduced him to the rulers I the middle east and Europe.
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His leadership of Mali, a state which stretched across two thousand miles from the Atlantic ocean to lake Chad and which include all or parts of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Niger, and Chad, ensured decades of peace and prosperity in Western Africa.