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| Appeared in | Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa |
| Character(s) | Mansa Musa |
| Release date | November 27, 2021 |
| Times appeared | 1 |
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The Sahara is where Mansa Musa briefly rapped in Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa.
Information on the location
The Sahara is a desert on the African continent. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. The name "Sahara" is derived from the Arabic word for "desert" in the feminine irregular form.
The desert comprises much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and Sudan. It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south, it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan Region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert.
For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle caused by the precession of Earth's axis as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African Monsoon.
Appearance in the rap battle
This is where Mansa Musa briefly rapped during his first verse.
Trivia
- The Sahara was mentioned by Mansa Musa during the line "I left footprints in the Sahara; I know hot tracks!".
- This is the fourth desert location to appear in an Epic Rap Battles of History, after Tatooine, the Albuquerque desert, and the Djinguereber Mosque.
- Despite only appearing for one line in the video, the Sahara is used as Musa's location in all promotional art, such as banners and thumbnails.
