- Mansa
- the title Mali's kings carried, meaning emperor above the kings
- Mali
- his West African kingdom, built on the salt and gold roads
- 1324
- the year of his famous Hajj, which the chronicles recorded
- the Hajj
- his journey to Mecca, which became the legend of generosity
- the gold
- his kingdom's metal, whose price in Cairo his lavish spending lowered
- Cairo
- the city he passed through as a pilgrim, spending without counting
- Timbuktu
- his city on the Niger bend, where he built the Djinguereber mosque
- Djinguereber
- the mosque he raised after returning home from the Hajj
- the salt
- the northern goods that, with gold, were the core of his trade
- the Catalan
- the European atlas on which his kingdom famously appeared in 1375
- the scholars
- the scholars and architects he summoned to serve his kingdom
- 1337
- the rough year of his death, after some thirty years of rule
