Dear Antoinette‚ It is a joyous year in 1312! My dearest friend as you know Mansa Musa is emperor he is very knowledgable and I have learned to read and write Arabic. Something peculiar has happened‚ Mansa Musa has been so courteous as to give our enemies a chance to live! We call them slaves and they do whatever you tell them to! They are fairly less then I would expect and the Northerners seem to enjoy them very much‚ Our country has become very rich indeed! If you ever need money you only need
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travel for many months and miles for your religion? Millions of Muslims every year travel to Mecca the birthplace of their religion. Mansa Musa was the king of Mali and was also one of the richest people in Africa at the time and he wanted to show off and make trades to northern parts of Africa while on his Hajj to Mecca. On his Hajj to Mecca Mansa Musa traveled to Taghaza and Tuwat Oasis as well as purposely brought 24‚000 pounds of gold and 60‚000 (Document A) to help him trade and convert
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by many writers from the point of view that he was an ordinary or “typical leader” leader; however‚ this writer proposes that Mansa Musa was an extra-ordinary emperor (atypical). Evidence to support this hypothesis will be drawn from the following.
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Sime Darby Kumpulan Sime Darby Berhad‚ Golden Hope Plantations Berhad and Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad merged in November 2007 and became one of the world’s largest oil palm plantation companies as well as a diversified multinational with operations in over 20 countries. Sime Darby’s core businesses are plantation‚ property‚ industrial‚ motors‚ energy and utilities and healthcare. Their main source of income is from the plantation business. The Energy and Utilities (E&U) division came under intense
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Mansa Musa was the leader of Mali and used his wealth and power to his advantage. He completed the 5th pillar of Islam‚ the journey to Mecca‚ with over 60‚000 people with him‚ 12‚000 being slaves. Mansa Musa was a king whose goals were to show off his wealth and power on the journey to Mecca‚ convert people to Islam‚ establish trade partners while being charitable‚ and earn himself a good reputation for those that had not heard of him. Mansa Musa had many goals to accomplish on his Hajj. Perhaps
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La Hacienda Musa1 La Hacienda Musa was a long way from Leuven‚ Belgium. But for Maria Keller‚ the transition was as natural as it could be. She had spent twenty years in Leuven studying banana genetics at the Catholic University of Leuven’s Laboratory of Tropical Crops‚ the world center of banana research. She had learned about the challenges the banana-growing industry faced from a variety of diseases‚ why bananas seemed to be especially susceptible‚ and how difficult it is to develop new strains
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Mansa Musa was one of the wealthiest person in human history; famous for his pilgrimage from Niani (the capital city of Mali) to Mecca. Several historians have called into question whether Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage was for religious reasons or not over the years‚ so was he a Devout Muslim‚ Or a Opportunist that used his own religion for personal gain? Mansa Musa was a preposterous sultan who used two of the Pillars of Islam as an excuse to make a journey to Mecca to increase his own personal glory
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As a citizen of Mali‚ I feel that Mansa Musa did a quite bold‚ and brave thing‚ that cost him many followers trust‚ but a new trade route in return. I however‚ am certainly not one of those “ex- followers”‚ for I find his strategy to be heroic. Even though he betrayed and stole from his citizens‚ in the long run‚ he meant well‚ and in a way‚ paid them all back. Mali was just average‚ until Mansa Musa came along. Under his ruling‚ our kingdom became twice the size that Ghana was. Because of him‚ we
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Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the most produced and widely consumed by worldwide market; and was originally descendent from hot and tropical region in South East Asia. For over 200 species were discovered which contributes to various cultivar with different types of characteristics and appearances tagged along the traits (Salunke‚ 1984). Banana came from family Musaceae genus and scientifically named as Musa paradisiacal L. In Malaysia‚ the diversity of banana can be proofed by the cultivars of diploid
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1.0 INTRODUCTION The first Prime Minister of Malaysia‚ Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj spearheaded the effort for independence‚ leading a delegation of ministers and political leaders of Malaya (now Malaysia) in negotiations with the British in London for Merdeka‚ or Independence. Tun Abdul Ghafar Baba also fight toward independence by follow the order from his superior. He is a very friendly and humble in leading and implementing ideological party affiliation. 2.0 BACKGROUND 2.1 BIODATA Tun
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