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So the the Mansa Abubakari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_II) desired to find the edge of the Atlantic Ocean and sailed off. It's unknown where he and his second Atlantic expedition ended up, with theories abound. Rather than debate that, what if the Mansa established a sea route hugging the W/African Coast line directly to Morocco and eventually Iberia. The primary trade good the Mali desired was salt which was mined in the Sahara and is much closer than the salt mines of North Africa/the Mediterranean world but how would this affect trade relations between the Mediterranean world and W/Africa in the coming centuries should a regular oceanic trade route develop from Mali to the Straits of Gibraltar?

His reign was circa the early 1300's (1310s possibly?) which is just shy of a decade or so before gun powder begins to permeate the Muslim world and Medieval Europe, how would things change if the knowledge and technology of how to make these weapons permeated via the sea route? Also naval technology of the era as well to further Mansa Abubakari's and possibly later Mali naval expeditions?

For context: it seems the North African & Arab explorers had attempted sea-route explorations to find the mouth of the Senegal river which they knew as the West Nile around 1100's.
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