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2024-08-15 09:42:04 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EE4DFC2D0107FD2E858577800E79C9F4B122BDB60D50559F2FB95E22F0FA65FE
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If Musa was the richest man ever is impossible to calculate. Mansa probably died before the Black Death reached England, it also reached middle east & Africa before that time. Europeans, even the English, were washing, bathing, etc. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Musa-I-of-Mali https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458 https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/scientific-facts-black-death/ https://youtu.be/RdNCVCKL6Rg?si=fUrZxxAo1jZ-ZUhO https://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/did-medieval-people-take-baths-why-they-were-cleaner-than-we-think-middle-ages-hygiene-handwash-washing-cleanliness-coronavirus-plague-covid/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/08/did-people-in-medieval-times-really-not-bathe/ https://www.ancient.eu/Medieval_Hygiene/ https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/ https://daily.jstor.org/scrub-a-dub-in-a-medieval-tub/
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