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Mansa Musa's enormous generosity on his pilgrimage to Mecca resulted in critical devaluation of gold in the region, which he then rectified by borrowing back large amounts of gold at extremely high interest. I'm curious to know--how sophisticated was his economic advisement?

by /u/TheVegetaMonologues in /r/AskHistorians

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