The median annual wage for architecture and engineering occupations was $76,870 in May 2015. The median annual wages for all occupations in this group was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations in the economy, which was $36,200.
Musa, Mansa (1280-1337) Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside Africa. His elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324 introduced him to rulers in the Middle East and in Europe.
Mansa Musa, Emperor. Mansa Musa was well known for his tall tales. He often boasted that he owned a gold plantâa plant that grew the precious metal in the ground just like a carrot. Mansa Musa ruled a fabulously wealthy fourteenth-century empire in the central part of western Africa. He provided the financing and inspiration to transform the small nomadic village of Timbuktu (Tombouctou) into an intellectual and economic center deep inside the continent.