The statement that best describes the overall impression people had of Mansa Musa when he visited Cairo is: People were impressed with Mansa Musa. The description highlights his opulence, virtues, and piety, as well as the great honor and courtesy he showed to others. This indicates a positive impression of him during his visit.
Read this description about Mansa Musa’s visit to Cairo. It was written by Al-Umari.
From the beginning of my coming to stay in Egypt I heard talk of the arrival of this sultan Musa on his Pilgrimage and found the [people of Cairo] eager to [tell of his visit]. I asked the emir Abu . . . and he told me of the opulence, manly virtues, and piety of his sultan. “When I went out to meet him . . . he did me extreme honour and treated me with the greatest courtesy. . . . Then he forwarded to the royal treasury many loads of unworked native gold and other valuables. I tried to persuade him to go up to the Citadel to meet the sultan, but he refused persistently saying: “I came for the Pilgrimage and nothing else. I do not wish to mix anything else with my Pilgrimage.”
–Description of Mansa Musa’s 1324 Cairo visit,
Al-Umari
Which statement best describes the overall impression people had of Mansa Musa when he visited Cairo?
People were impressed with Mansa Musa.
People were disappointed with Mansa Musa.
People were uninterested in Mansa Musa.
People were afraid of Mansa Musa.
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