These are the richest of all time

This title belongs to Mansi Musa, or Sultan Musa, ruler of West Africa in the 14th century.

His password was such that it made it impossible to understand how powerful this man was”, said BBC Rudolf Butch Ware, professor of history at the University of California.

Moses was richer than anyone could describe him.

Those who have tried to evaluate his wealth have come with the figures of four hundred billion dollars, but economic historians agree that his wealth could not be limited to an accurate number.

Mansa Musa was born in 1280 into a family of rulers. His brother Mansa Abu Bekri was the one who ruled the empire until 1312 when he arrived and set out on an expedition. Abu Bekri, as historians write, was obsessed with the Atlantic Ocean. So he prepared a fleet of two thousand ships, and carried with him thousands of men, women, and slaves, who joined themselves to him. They left never coming back. Some historians claim to have reached the coast of South America, but there is no solid evidence of that.

So it was Mansa Musa who inherited the kingdom of the mountain. Under his rule, the mountain reached an incredible boom. It was a kingdom that included the modern - day territories of Nigeria, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire. For city symbol, or capital, there was Timbuktu.

This area provided large quantities of resources, such as gold and salt.

At that time, Moses owned half the gold in the world.

On a trip to Mecca through the wilderness, he was followed by 60,000 people - officials, soldiers, merchants, slaves, and ordinary people.

It was a town passing through the desert. A city whose inhabitants were surrounded by gold and finest Persian silk. Hundreds of camels carried fine gold.

Centuries later, Timbuktu became a type of Eldoradoje even in the 19th century had the status of a lost mythical city that was targeted by European explorers and treasure hunters.

During his rule, Moses financed literature, built schools, libraries, and mosques.

Timbuktu was the center of education, and people from around the world came to study.

When Mansa Musa died in 1337, after 57 years, the kingdom was followed by his sons, who failed to preserve the empire.

Many peoples broke down, and the empire slowly disappeared.

The arrival of Europeans to the region has destroyed and its latest remains estimate researchers.

“Medieval period history is still largely seen as a Western history”, says one of them, Lisa Corrin Graziosti, explaining why the world still knows nothing about Mans Musa.

The Ten Wealthiest People in Human History

Mansa Musa (1280-1337, ruler of the kingdom of Mali) ʹ incalculable wealth.

Augustus Caesar (Eomak Emperor) $4.6 trillion.

Zhao Xu (1048-1085, Chinese Emperor) with uncountable wealth.

Akbar I (1542-1605, car of the Indian Mughal dynasty) .

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, industrialist) $372 billion.

John D Rockefeller (1839-1937, U.S. tycoons)

Nikolai Aleksandrov Romanov (1868-1918, Russian emperor) well 300 billion dollars.

Osman Ali Khan (1886-1967, a member of the Indian royal family), HINA 230 billion dollars.

William Conquerial (1028-1087)

Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011, Libyan ruler) $ 200 billion.