Mansa Musa made it onto European maps.
On the Catalan Atlas of 1375, half a century after his pilgrimage, the ruler of Mali sits on a throne holding a golden nugget.
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- 1324 · 1325 In 1324, Mansa Musa gave away so much gold in Cairo that its value fell.
- 1325 · 1354 Ibn Battuta travelled about 117,000 km, almost three times round the equator.
- 1325 The wooden bucket that Modena and Bologna supposedly went to war over has been kept in Modena for some 700 years.
- 1325 Moscow and Mexico City began their rise in the same year: in 1325 Ivan Kalita became Prince of Moscow, and the Aztecs, by tradition, founded Tenochtitlan — the future Mexico City — on an island in a lake.
- 1327 Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq ordered Delhi's people to move to a new capital over 1,000 km away.
- 1330 A Delhi sultan issued copper coins worth silver, and his subjects began minting them at home.