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Mansa Musa was a 14th-century king of Mali Empire and is wealth is believed to have exceeded $400 billion in today's money.
Apr 16, 2021 · According to Forbes, as of October 2020, there were 614 American billionaires, the largest number of billionaires in the country’s history. And the vast majority of them are not people of...
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Apr 15, 2021 · O.W. Gurley was one of the founders of the Tulsa, Oklahoma community known as “Black Wall Street” one of the wealthiest Black communities in American history.
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Apr 12, 2021 · Mansa Musa ruled over the Mali empire in the 14th Century, and his incredible access to gold made him arguably the richest human to have ever lived.
- Genghis Khan
- Bill Gates
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- John D. Rockefeller
- Andrew Carnegie
- Joseph Stalin
- Akbar I
- Emperor Shenzong
- Augustus Caesar
- Mansa Musa
Lived:1162-1227 Country:Mongolian Empire Wealth:Lots of land, not much else Genghis Khan is undoubtedly one of the most successful military leaders of all time. As leader of the Mongol Empire, which at its height stretched from China to Europe, he controlled the largest contiguous empire in history. However, despite his great power, scholars say Ge...
Lived:1955-present Country:United States Wealth:$78.9 billion As the richest living person, Bill Gates’ wealth is refreshingly easy to determine. As of this year, Forbesestimates the Microsoft founder’s net worth at $78.9 billion. That’s about $8 billion more than Zara co-founderAmancio Ortega, the second-richest person in the world.
Lived:1040–1093 Country:England Wealth:$194 billion The nephew of William the Conqueror, Rufus joined his uncle in the Norman conquest. He died with £11,000, according to Philip Beresford and Bill Rubinstein, authors of The Richest of the Rich, which they sayamounted to 7% of England’s GDP at the time. That would amount to $194 billion in 2014 doll...
Lived:1839–1937 Country:United States Wealth:$341 billion Rockefeller began investing in the petroleum industry in 1863 and by 1880 his Standard Oil company controlled90% of American oil production. According to hisNew York Times obituary, Rockefeller was valued at about $1.5 billion based on a 1918 federal income tax return and estimates of his ov...
Lived:1835–1919 Country:United States Wealth:$372 billion Rockefeller gets all the press, but Andrew Carnegie may be the richest American of all time. The Scottish immigrant sold his company, U.S. Steel, to J.P. Morgan for $480 million in 1901. That sum equates to about slightly over 2.1% of U.S. GDP at the time, giving Carnegie economic power equi...
Lived:1878–1953 Country:USSR Wealth:Complete control of a nation with 9.6% of global GDP Stalin is an uncommon figure in modern economic history: a dictator with absolute power who also controlled one of the largest economies in the world. While it is virtually impossible to separate Stalin’s wealth from the wealth of the Soviet Union, his unique c...
Lived:1542–1605 Country:India Wealth:Ruled empire with 25% of global GDP The greatest emperor of India’s Mughal dynasty, Akbar controlled an empire that accounted for aboutone-fourth of global economic output. Fortune’s Chris Matthews cites the late economic historian Angus Maddison, who speculates India’s GDP per capita under Akbar was comparable ...
Lived:1048–1085 Country:China Wealth:Ruled empire with 25% to 30% of global GDP China’s Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) was one of the most economically powerful empires of all time. According to Prof. Ronald A. Edwards, a Chinese economic historian of the Song Dynasty at Tamkang University, the nation accounted forbetween 25% and 30%of the world’s econo...
Lived:63 BC–14 AD Country:Rome Wealth:$4.6 trillion Not only was Augustus Caesar in charge of an empire that accounted for25% to 30% of the world’s economic output, but according to Stanford history professor Ian Morris, Augustus at one point held personal wealth equivalent to one-fifth of his empire’s economy. That fortune would be the equivalent ...
Year:1280–1337 Country:Mali Wealth:Richer than anyone could describe Mansa Musa, the king of Timbuktu, is oftenreferred to as the wealthiest person in history. According to Ferrum College history professor Richard Smith, Musa’s west African kingdom was likely the largest producer of gold in the world—at a time which gold was in especially high dema...
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Dec 24, 2023 · Looking for that List of Black Billionaires? Here's The Richest Black People in the World. Long before Christian Keyes made his allegation about a mystery bad Billionaire, The Root had...
Feb 1, 2024 · When you search for the wealthiest people in the world, few – if any – of them will be Black. However, It’s interesting to know that at one point the richest person in the world was a Black king known as Mansa Musa. Here’s what you should know about this fascinating man.
