After reviewing the Catalan map of Africa and reading the excerpt from Howard W. French, it is obvious that maps were utilized during the 14th century to show Europeans how they could view these countries in Africa as a tool to help them to benefit and strengthen their own countries. It does not speak to or demonstrate how these countries developed their own sophisticated societies and cultures. It strives to show these African countries as smaller than their native lands, stresses the importance of their riches and resources. So it shows their bias and intentions to use maps to express their dominance and their beliefs about Africa which were very limited at the time. Especially in the way in which they described Mansa Musa, "identification of Mali and its famous king, who is called Musse Melly. The ruler is depicted as unambiguously Black and glowingly described in the following terms: “sovereign of the land of the negroes of Gineva [Ghana]." It shows that they did not fully understand who he was and the effect that he not only had on his own country but throughout the world.