[Alex Murphy]

Using the annual 2199.6per cent rate of inflation, where $100million in 1913 is equal to $2.299.63billion in 2012, Celebrity Net Worth's list includes familiar names like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; but sitting at number one is Mansa Musa I of Mali.

The West Africa king, the richest person in history, and the ruler of the Malian Empire which covered modern day Ghana, Timbuktu and Mali in West Africa, had a personal net worth of $400 billion at the time of his death in 1331.

The list also includes the man who gave America Wal-Mart, another who developed mail-order shopping around 1870, as well as a few nobles who helped with the Norman conquest of England in the Battle of Hastings nearly one thousand years ago.

So what happened to all of that wealth? Did he get cleaned out by a Nigerian 419 scam?

[RegulatorCountry]

He sat on Malian currency from the looks of it, lol.

[Sequoyah101]

Kings are easily spotted by their enemies don’t you know? They are the ones who haven’t got Stuff on them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8vXOUi-eI

[boop]

In 1331, you could have all the gold in the world but who gives a $hit? What could you do with it in that era? Buy a golden chamber pot? Have concubines wipe your butt with gold leaf? Take a lukewarm bath in a golden tub? Ride a horse with a golden saddle? Eat nuts and berries off a gold plate?

Seems pretty BORING.

[Vigilanteman]

Islamic missionaries arrived and converted most of Mali. And the rest, as they say, is history.