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Mansa Musa's Gift of Horses and Camels
Mansa Musa gave away so much gold that he completely crashed the price of gold in Cairo and it didn't recover for 20 years. He wanted to hang around after Haj season to learn more and meet new people and hit all the tourist spots. Only the official Haj caravan he'd arrive with had already left ages ago, so now he and his posse of people and camels had to travel back by themselves. There were no taxis back then and even if there had been, you can't get 100 camels in a voxel astra.