yeah i wouldn't take it at face value when i was growing up when i would ask my dad for a ride he was like in nigeria i would walk NUMBER_TOKEN miles to go to school and i went to nigeria and it was like a block the walking through the snow to school thing is universal across all cultures i think yeah PROFANITY_TOKEN boomers dude i guess we're kind of like the new boomers oh yeah you're a millennial right yeah yeah yeah what are you professor ancient like gandalf the white well no gandalf the white was like uh his reborn form right maybe some point i'll you know transform into an exciting new version of myself i hope i'm a little bigger because i still can't uh reach most things however with such a vast kingdom and twitter still NUMBER_TOKEN years away from being invented mansa musa faced the challenge of how to govern such a widespread and diverse populace so how did monsantusa maintain control a he relocated the capital and all its people to the exact middle of the kingdom b something boring like ceding local control to province governors and village mayors or whatever or c he mandated every boy moved to the capitol at age five to be educated in pro-empire propaganda a lot to chew on there but i invite you to chew all righty have you chewed i've chewed okay what do we got ryan c for brainwashing okay okay iffy and this time i would be for boring legislation well history is often either very exciting or very boring and so if he gets six thousand seven hundred and eighty two jelly beans wow because he is correct the answer is b yes mansa musa took the road less traveled in the middle ages and decided to rule with a not quite iron fist he divided the kingdom into provinces put a governor in charge of each and made sure each village had a mayor local authorities would handle local matters while mansa musa and his advisors took care of the big stuff he also instituted written laws and made sure everyone knew there was a distinction between the law and himself perhaps these things don't seem like a big deal but this was the NUMBER_TOKENs when the bar for decent king was as low as sometimes people had food mansa musa was killing it and he reaped a staggering fortune as a result the empire was prosperous and because of his system of taxation that made mansa musa rich according to history professor rudolph ware imagine as much gold as you think a human being could possess and double it this is the richest guy anyone has ever seen what would you guys even do if you got to the point where you had so much money that it lost value i feel like at that point you know uh maybe some you know philanthropic donating some of it re-distributing that wealth i think i'd disappear a couple people with no loose ends god oh jesus dude make sure it's quick okay moving along hey professor oh it's the chill or yep i'm not as funny as the other guys i'm just sort of a normal dude who happens to be an ore so sorry i'm not
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN professor oh it's the chill or yep i'm not as funny as the other guys i'm just sort of a normal dude who happens to be an ore so sorry i'm not END_SPONSOR_TOKEN