⚡️👀 HISTORY - The figures are staggering. These fortunes have shaped empires, wars, and civilizations.
Wealth has never been just about money, but above all about power.
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Most built wealth through conquest and imperial control: Mansa Musa via Mali's gold/salt trade dominance; Genghis Khan by plundering Eurasia; emperors like Akbar and Shenzong through taxes, tributes, and vast territories. Rulers like Stalin and Catherine seized state resources amid total power. Carnegie and Rockefeller innovated industrially—steel efficiency and oil refining—scaling monopolies in emerging markets.
Immeasurable?
Time magazine reported: "There's really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth."
Well then why is he on the list? Not only on the list but #1
Might as well put Pablo Escabar on it since theres no definitive figure for his wealth.
I believe he single-handedly caused the price of gold to fall because he gave it away wherever he went.
You can meet 30 sources, they will all have different numbers.
Passing by Cairo, on his way to Hajj, stayed for a month, he gave away so much gold to people there, he caused inflation in the whole city.
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