General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Chris]

Mansa Musa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Chris]

Yeah 1300s so I was off on the timeline too

 

[Chris]

But all that prosperity that he took advantage of started hundreds of years before

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I love the story of his pilgrimage to Mecca where he stopped in Alexandria and flooded the city with so much fuckin' gold that it caused inflation that lasted decades

 

[Chris]

Alexandria has some of the funniest history for a city ngl

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Alexandria has some of the funniest history for a city ngl

Oh yeah there's also the story of when Octavian arrived in Alexandria for the first time and he allegedly wept at how beautiful it was

 

[Chris]

I have a theory that his pilgrimage to Mecca is what made that even more of a big deal instead of a tradition that would have eventually died off as the religion spread to farther areas

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

You're probably right about that because it's such a major Islamic story

 

[Chris]

But there's no proof, it's just based on how from what I can tell, he was insanely famous, more so than we give credit to bc a lot of the direct history of the culture is lost, we have the Egypt sources mostly

 

[Chris]

It's probably not just him but if those early famous Muslims figures wouldn't have made the trip, it wouldn't have stayed a thing

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I think it's much like how Richard the Lionheart is such an English icon despite arguably not being a very good king lel, just because of the stories told about him

 

[Chris]

England is real bad about people being remembered more fondly than they should but I'm glad we have a better consensus now outside of their bias

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

In the same era, Saladin should be remembered more fondly

 

[Chris]

That's really the case with any source tho, reading through he biases is fun for me. Especially more insight in these "barbarians" written by their enemies but if you really read between the lines you can tell what they were actually like

 

[Chris]

In the same era, Saladin should be remembered more fondly

he's also on civ 6 I think lol