OVERLOOKED HISTORY.

• Author: Zack, Ian
• Position: Editorial - Brief article

Why do we remember some people and events and not others? It may surprise your students to learn that the man many consider the richest person ever was a 14th-century African ruler named Mansa Musa. As we explain in Times Past, Musa gets overlooked partly because he lived in an era that isn't widely covered in world history classes--and because he lived in Africa, which doesn't fit with the Eurocentric history...