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Igel

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5. And Musa's empire, sustained by a large army,

Reply to SemperEadem (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:36 PM

Oct 2012

exploited them all.

Gold and salt, ivory and slaves.

We focus on gold and salt, because ivory makes him sound like a poacher and slaves makes him sound like a slaver. He was no more either than he was a gold miner or salt miner. Taxes and monopolies.

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