Posted on 10/16/2012 4:43:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An obscure king who ruled West Africa in the 14th century has been named the richest person in history in a new inflation-adjusted list of the world's 25 wealthiest people of all time.
Spanning 1,000 years and with a combined fortune of $4.317 trillion, only three of the list's 25 are alive today; none of them are women and 14 of them are American.
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 $400billion 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.
The Rothschild family, second on the list, are the richest people on earth today with assets that total at least $350billion - their wealth divided amongst mining, banks, private asset management, mixed farming, wine, and charities.
Meanwhile John D. Rockefeller, third on the list, is the richest American to have ever lived, worth $340billion in today's USD at the time of his death in 1937.
In comparison, the poorest man on the list is 82-year-old Warren Buffett, who at his peak net worth, before he started giving his fortune to charity, was $64billion.
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I still think Crassus had him beat.
George Bailey was the richest man in town
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?
2199.6 percent annual inflation? I’m usually pretty handy with statistics. This strikes me as a typo, outside Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany.
There are artifacts and ruins of the ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Babylonian, Mongol, etc empires, but what remains of the Malian empire? They had no common language, and although coeval with other great empires, there are few architectural remnants. IIRC, the Great Zimbabwe was not Malian.
So just one mega-wealthy ruler and an impoverished people without a culture of their own. Some king he was...
He sat on Malian currency from the looks of it, lol.
The Rothschilds are worth $350B. Big woop. The Saudi royal family is worth somewhere around $1.5T in personal wealth, and then they more or less own the whole country.
For that matter, by any reasonable standard Stalin owned the USSR and everyone and everything in it. As the current Kim owns N. Korea.
Perhaps he defied the saying, "you can't take it with you".
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
‘George Baily was the richest man in town.’
:-D
+1
Seems pretty BORING.
"You didn' build that," Barack Hussein Obama, "Oh wait... this was before AmeriKKKa, meybe you DID!"
Hey, don’t knock the concubines thing.
And just think, Zero has managed to spend that amount in less than four years.
Yep - and always will be!
The Obamas Upkeep / Vacations make these folks look like they are on Welfare.
TT
I think Joe Stalin that quaint Djugashvili character from Georgia should be considered in there. He de facto owned everything and everyone in the Soviet Union and quite a bit outside of his home estate, the USSR.
I guess you are not a guy.
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