How Did Mansa Musa Influence West African Culture

Surely, the Mali Empire was one of the strongest empires in the history. Even though, the empire doesn’t last for a long time, the empire has become the strongest in the African area. Its territory was in West African area, it includes nowadays Gambia, Ghana, and Niger etc. The Mali Empire was rich in natural resources, also they used to control a lot of different types of trades in the area. Moreover, the Mansa Musa had a great contribution on the blossom of Mali Empire. The word Mansa in front of his name means king or emperor. Mansa Musa was so generous person, and he was a person with Muslim religion. There was no other emperors with Muslim religion rather than Mansa Musa in the region. Therefore, he had contribution on spreading the Muslim in the West African region. He focused on a lot of minor factors, such as building schools and public libraries for people, but I think his effort has a huge effect on the West African region. The great Emperor Mansa Musa went on pilgrimage along with thousands of his servant, and that much amount of gold. He went through a lot of

I can’t believe that the religion and power of war were in the hand of one ruler, and I think, it is so hard to control the religion and the power at the same time. They are opposites of each other. However, the emperor Mansa Musa did a very good work on the army, he increased the number of men in the army to 100000. Moreover, the 10 percent otherwise the 10000 of the army were cavalry. He built a very strong army with a very strong cavalry force. At that time, there was no Empire which has this much of warriors in the army rather than Mali Empire and Mongol Empire. The capital of the Mongol Empire was located in the central Asia, and they were conquering and ruling the Middle East and Europe at that time, but not Africa. In my opinion, the Mali Empire was the strongest empire in 13th and 14th century in