Of course, there would be the pretty obvious drastic butterflies, including:
-No depreciation of the gold in Arabian and European markets
-Mali Empire would still have a crazy amount of gold with their hold
etc.
But how would this affect Marco Polo's voyage to China? How would this create less obvious butterflies for the Mali Empire? What about the entirety of Islam altogether? How would this affect Europe and its markets and prices?
*Oopsies, did a typo on the title.