But the party he (or his kingdom/wtf) had was real. Messed up the economy for decades. He/they gave people so much gold it was basically not worth it work anymore.
Imagine you have 10M, would you accept to work for 50k a year?
The video posted dispels this claim you're making. The gold he introduced to the economy had minimal impact on gold prices and was within the normal fluctuations.
I would guess some Persian leader would have been the richest. That was the silk road and the center of wealth and commerce for the majority of history. But the jews can't have us thinking that part of the world is real or we might stop supporting their wars.
A distant region that has one resource in such abundance that the limitation is on what you can spend it on because of limited transport.
In absolute terms, Mali had a lot of gold. Not quite "Bolivian silver" amounts of gold, but definitely the most easily recovered reserves of gold by pre-chemistry methods. If we measure strictly by the amount of gold that was held by any country all at once, then there probably was a point where Mali was the wealthiest country on the planet. But if you can't buy anything with it because you're on the wrong side of the desert, it doesn't really matter that you have bricks of shiny yellow metal.
The video goes into that the Mali Kingdom and other western Sub-Saharan states had huge gold deposits that were surface mined. People were able to pick gold up off the ground or pan for it. So they were rich, but it's more comparable to the Beverly Hillbillies than Gordon Gekko.
These undeveloped societies with mud huts and no true urban cities were flush with a resource that bought them stuff
I always thought Augustus Caesar was the richest of all time. He literally owned the entire country of Egypt where the whole country was his private estate.
Once you have so much money that Smaug The Dragon's vast hoard of gold and gemstones is mere chump change, that you could recreate that CG scene on a whim with real minted gold, I think differentiating between figures is mostly academic curiosity.
I've been saying this for years. Mansa Musa was basically fictional.
He did own a lot of slaves I hear.
Not true! He was in Civ IV!
But the party he (or his kingdom/wtf) had was real. Messed up the economy for decades. He/they gave people so much gold it was basically not worth it work anymore.
Imagine you have 10M, would you accept to work for 50k a year?
The video posted dispels this claim you're making. The gold he introduced to the economy had minimal impact on gold prices and was within the normal fluctuations.
Then What messed up Egypt's economy?
Surely not the j...
I would guess some Persian leader would have been the richest. That was the silk road and the center of wealth and commerce for the majority of history. But the jews can't have us thinking that part of the world is real or we might stop supporting their wars.
Especially since the ruling elite of the Persian empire were Aryans and even referred to themselves as such.
The richest person in history who we can actually assign numbers to was Jakob Fugger. At one point he controlled about 25% of all the money in Europe.
IMO some arab king is the richest, or Stalin if you wanna see it that way (but he did not "truly" own all of Russia's assets).
It's probably the Rothschild family.
Kubla khan maybe?
This guy also has a video defending King Leopold II and his rule of the Congo
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Mali is a strange case.
A distant region that has one resource in such abundance that the limitation is on what you can spend it on because of limited transport.
In absolute terms, Mali had a lot of gold. Not quite "Bolivian silver" amounts of gold, but definitely the most easily recovered reserves of gold by pre-chemistry methods. If we measure strictly by the amount of gold that was held by any country all at once, then there probably was a point where Mali was the wealthiest country on the planet. But if you can't buy anything with it because you're on the wrong side of the desert, it doesn't really matter that you have bricks of shiny yellow metal.
Even if he was, wasn't it just by virtue of being a trade hub and getting a cut from the trades
The video goes into that the Mali Kingdom and other western Sub-Saharan states had huge gold deposits that were surface mined. People were able to pick gold up off the ground or pan for it. So they were rich, but it's more comparable to the Beverly Hillbillies than Gordon Gekko.
These undeveloped societies with mud huts and no true urban cities were flush with a resource that bought them stuff
He was also had a number of slaves I hear
I always thought Augustus Caesar was the richest of all time. He literally owned the entire country of Egypt where the whole country was his private estate.
Once you have so much money that Smaug The Dragon's vast hoard of gold and gemstones is mere chump change, that you could recreate that CG scene on a whim with real minted gold, I think differentiating between figures is mostly academic curiosity.