A simple question with a terribly difficult answer: Who had more money? John D. Rockefeller or Genghis Khan?
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Economists, academics, and historians have spent countless hours researching and finally compiling a list of the 10 richest people of all time. See who's below.
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Genghis Khan
The leader of the Mongol Empire, in addition to being a very capable and highly successful general, also had enormous wealth, which he mostly shared with his soldiers.
His fortune was largely dominated by vast tracts of land ( in its heyday, his empire stretched from China to Europe ), with academics claiming that despite his great power he never accumulated his wealth.
9
Bill Gates
One of the richest in life. At 62, Bill Gates is now the second richest guy on the planet, behind Amazon 's Jeff Bezos. Of course, Gates would have been richer than Bezos if he hadn't been so involved in charity through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In particular, it has donated about 700 million shares of Microsoft stock over the years, as well as $ 2.9 billion.
8
Alan Rufus
Richard's lord and nephew of William the First (England, 1040 - 1093), also known as Alan the Red (Alan the Red), reportedly had a fortune of .000 11,000 when he died.
In case this amount seems small to you, find out that it corresponded at that time to 7% of the country's GDP, while with a reduction in today's money we are talking about $ 194,000,000,000.
7
John D. Rockefeller
An industrialist and so-called "oil king", he began investing in the industry before it was cool, from 1863 to 1880, when Standard Oil controlled 90% of US production.
According to the New York Times, his fortune was equivalent to 2% of US GDP in 1918, at around $ 341,000,000.
6
Andrew Carnegie
If the Rockefeller you saw before was the Boston Celtics of the time, then Carnegie was the Los Angeles Lakers. We are writing this as the Scottish immigrant lived at the same time as the "king of oil" and fatally there was an informal opposition to who was richer.
Carnegie sold the largest U.S. steel company, US Steel, to JP Morgan for $ 480 million in 1901. The amount today would be $ 390,000,000,000. It is worth noting that Carnegie is considered the richest American of all time.
5
Joseph Stalin
Don't be fooled by the Soviet background and the communist profile of the father-in-law. The leader of the Soviet Union controlled the entire economy of his country.
If you don't understand exactly what this means, consider that in 1950 (3 years before his death) the Soviet Union represented 9.6% of the world's GDP. That would translate into $ 7.5 trillion today.
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4
Akbar I
Here's something you certainly didn't expect: And a second Mongol on the list of the most prosperous people who have ever lived in this vain world. Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, as his full name was, lived between 1542 and 1605.
The leader of the Mongol dynasty in India controlled the absolute control of an empire that represented 25% of the world economy at the time, which according to historian Angus Maddison, India's GDP under Akbar the Great could be compared to this. of England of the Elizabethan period.
3
Ο Shenzong
Suffice it to say that Shenzong (1048 - 1085), as emperor of China, controlled about 30% of the world's GDP, according to Professor Ronald A. Edwards.
The wealth of the Chinese empire came from, among other things, its technological advancement but also its tax collection capacity, which Edwards says was hundreds of years ahead of that of European governments.
2
August Caesar
Such a list could only have a Roman emperor. He was not only the leader of a vast empire that controlled 30% of the world's wealth at the time but according to history professor Ian Morris, at some point Caesar came to have a personal fortune equal to 1/5 of the empire's economy.
At present, we are talking about almost 5 trillion dollars, while as Morris characteristically points out, " for a short period he had the whole of Egypt in his possession ".
1
Mansa Musa
According to Professor Richard Smith, but also many other academics and researchers, the King of Timbuktu (1280 - 1337) is the richest man who ever lived. His kingdom was the largest gold producer in the world, at a time when there was extremely high demand and the price had skyrocketed.
" He is the richest man anyone has ever seen. They are looking for words to explain it. There are pictures of him holding a gold scepter on a gold throne, holding a gold glass, and wearing a golden crown on his head, "said historian Rudolph Ware.
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