Who were the Richest People in History?

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  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2293

    Imagine being so rich you can physically make gold worthless in the areas you visit because you give away so much wealth

    • @schwarzenbutter9160
      @schwarzenbutter9160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I see you literally every. Why.

    • @jimbovitikan4848
      @jimbovitikan4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      just become an iron nickel asteroid

    • @wanderlusts2207
      @wanderlusts2207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      so this is how you get so popular in comments

    • @tribomb2065
      @tribomb2065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’m gay

    • @hampter9537
      @hampter9537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      stop being everywhere i hate it

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  3 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    💸What would you do with all that money?💰

  • @Screaming-Bees
    @Screaming-Bees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1129

    You forgot scrooge mcduck this man litteraly swam in his gold

    • @doubledthread56
      @doubledthread56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      But it’s not a liquid! It’s a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface!

    • @TheRazerGamer02
      @TheRazerGamer02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@doubledthread56 he is a working, talking, human like duck, and your biggest concern is the physics in a goddamn fort full of cash?

    • @moriskurth628
      @moriskurth628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@doubledthread56
      In the old Series they even made a joke about that. Scrooge jumps into a pile of coins and swims just fine, but when Dewey, Huey, and Louie try to do the same, they just hit their heads and one of them wonders aloud how their Great-Uncle does that.

    • @patricksproductions3477
      @patricksproductions3477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@doubledthread56 damn you have your priorities

    • @xanakor
      @xanakor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheRazerGamer02 its a family guy ref th-cam.com/video/viDL2W0HcJw/w-d-xo.html

  • @logankevitt8401
    @logankevitt8401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    Mark Zuckerberg looked more like an actual human in Simple History’s video than actual real life and it was a cartoon rendition 😂

  • @toast6494
    @toast6494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    "Hi can I borrow a pencil?"
    "Sure thing here you go."
    "Alright here's a 24k coin for your kindness"

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 3 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    "Wow, that guy's rich" - everyone said

    • @ThatC10Guy
      @ThatC10Guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Indeed

    • @DrewDrewDrewDrewDrew
      @DrewDrewDrewDrewDrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed

    • @Nazerous
      @Nazerous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed

    • @ImTheCrew
      @ImTheCrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This comment should be removed.

    • @ThatC10Guy
      @ThatC10Guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      “This comment should get removed.” Someone said

  • @afonya553
    @afonya553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +422

    Can you do one about the Great Purge under Stalin?

  • @woahmannchill
    @woahmannchill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    1910s in a nutshell:
    Finds oil: *STONKS*

  • @t-posetimmy6834
    @t-posetimmy6834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    Normal rich people: *buys a Lamborghini or a luxury house*
    That one brain damaged guy: *donates 84 million to a twitch streamer just to say his name*

    • @whenweeb6471
      @whenweeb6471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I hope hes not a simp

    • @Ruebenbayona
      @Ruebenbayona 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It kind of sounds like mr beast

    • @redundantfridge9764
      @redundantfridge9764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Calm down guys, it's a meme story with Pokimane. It was meant to take the piss out of simps.

    • @someguy2184
      @someguy2184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@your_averageboi9083 " simpmaster69 "

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@whenweeb6471 I am sorry to say this, but that one brain damaged guy is a simp ...

  • @unidentifiedleiviathan7250
    @unidentifiedleiviathan7250 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    When mom says "you can keep the change":

  • @pietropigozzo9740
    @pietropigozzo9740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    The first emperor of Rome was Augustus, Ceasar was only a dictator

    • @marcdelia6606
      @marcdelia6606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "only"

    • @pietropigozzo9740
      @pietropigozzo9740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I know he was other than a dictator

    • @thecount1374
      @thecount1374 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pietropigozzo9740 was crassus really the richest man in Rome if I remember correctly he was a hero of the 3rd Servile War

    • @Willz828
      @Willz828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      technically octavian adopted the name Gaius Julius Ceasar so he had 3 names, and ceaser was technically the first eperoer of ro e

    • @DiviAugusti
      @DiviAugusti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@thecount1374 Yes he famously created his own private fire brigade that would rush to fires and offer to put the fire out if the owner signs over the ownership of the property to Crassus. At which point they would remain living there paying rent to their new landlord, Crassus. Certainly preferable to watching your home burn.

  • @LiqnLag
    @LiqnLag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Technically, Crassus died when Rome was still barely clinging on to the Republic label, not quite there and a massive civil war yet to 'enjoy' in order to make it an Empire.
    Crassus' death made a ton of Romans happy. Not only was he rich, he collected favors as a hobby and pretty much anyone of value owed him for some past boon he had magnanimously granted them.

  • @adamdubin1276
    @adamdubin1276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You forgot a very important fact about Mansa Musa, He was so wealthy that during his pilgrimage to Mecca he spent and donated so much gold that he actually crashed the economy on the Arabian Peninsula...

  • @athomicritics
    @athomicritics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    also dont forget that Crassus created a firefighter brigade for Rome that would only put out the fire if they got paid a fee by the person who owned the house currently on fire

    • @iteor7320
      @iteor7320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or he would buy the houses on fire and then put them out! Odd way of making real estate

    • @davidcobb2682
      @davidcobb2682 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I heard of this from Jack Rackham channel

  • @ExhaustedPatriot
    @ExhaustedPatriot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Bruh doesn't even mention my Boy Soloman, the man so rich his slaves wore gold.

    • @MichaelDavis-mk4me
      @MichaelDavis-mk4me 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Or the current day prince of Arabia who is richer than Jeff Besos.

    • @thekhans2823
      @thekhans2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @ @@MichaelDavis-mk4me , or the Rothschild family that has 500 trillion dollars

    • @shawdawg3675
      @shawdawg3675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thekhans2823 its a family, not a single person as done in the videp

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shawdawg3675 You have a point

    • @thekhans2823
      @thekhans2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ @@shawdawg3675 , yeah but you have to think about it 🤔

  • @keenislander9897
    @keenislander9897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Imgaine someone breaking into your home and there like:
    “GIMMIE YOUR CASH NOW!”
    $100 Billionaires: “Oh take as much as you want! I’m bored with the money anyway.”
    “uh o k”

  • @kidindacardboardmask
    @kidindacardboardmask 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Simple History: “Grand-Burger”
    Me: “Yes, I’ll take one...” 😂

  • @someguy1909
    @someguy1909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Rockefeller: in trouble with the US government for buying all the competition
    Facebook: if I dont move maybe they won't see me...

  • @jerichamesclammay3107
    @jerichamesclammay3107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    *Parthians feeding Marcus' corpse melted gold*
    the ancient times really was just a series of "bruh" moments

  • @runertje550
    @runertje550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Crassus’s death was a damn shame, he could’ve avoided it all if he would’ve just sided with the Armenians.
    Watch Historia Civil’s video on the Battle of Carrhae if you want to know more about that battle. It is maybe even one of the most unique and mind blowing battles ever

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yah, back when Armenians still lived there in a majority

  • @richardgonzalez6409
    @richardgonzalez6409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The part that actually hurt in this video was Calling Julius Caesar an Emperor. He was never an emperor. Dictator for life yes. But never an emperor.

    • @jacobshannon7991
      @jacobshannon7991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Read any history book on Julius Caesar. He never became princeps (the first citizen; basically means emperor but the romans hated royal titles) but he did become dictator (an executive role during times of political crisis). Augustus Caesar (Octavian, his nephew) became the first princeps of Rome, beginning the Roman Principate (Roman Empire)

    • @wilmerbesitan1200
      @wilmerbesitan1200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know right, Octavian/Augustus was the first Emperor

    • @EmiTo3
      @EmiTo3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jacobshannon7991 Also Augustus had to fight another civil war against Caesar's assassins and then another civil war against Mark Anthony before establishing the Roman Principate, so there was no smooth transition to the Roman Empire when Julius Caesar came to power

    • @WWUt-zh3mz
      @WWUt-zh3mz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah and even worse they said that Julius Caesar lived in the Roman Empire which is absolutely false cause it was created after his death !

  • @SouthernGentleman
    @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Forrest are the first that comes to mind.

    • @couldbeanybody2508
      @couldbeanybody2508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@moisturesstudios437 ok furry

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/08VtxFZlXKc/w-d-xo.html

    • @d4tas42
      @d4tas42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@moisturesstudios437 ok commie

    • @SouthernGentleman
      @SouthernGentleman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you! Iconoclast

    • @okaro6595
      @okaro6595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeff Bezos is richer than all those three combined - by a wide margin.

  • @lasombra1469
    @lasombra1469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Mansa Musa: "Well of course I know him,he's me"

    • @JaelaOrdo
      @JaelaOrdo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      😂👍🏽

    • @Bruh-mb2jc
      @Bruh-mb2jc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He forgot people such as Ghengis Khan,Julius Ceasar and many others who were worth in Trilions of todays dollars

    • @lewismatley8992
      @lewismatley8992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ahh general kenobi

  • @arsmariastarlight3567
    @arsmariastarlight3567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Mansa Musa's stories about his wealth is real. When he make a pilgrimage to Mecca, he brought along gold carried by a convoy of camels, which is so long that it's said, it takes one full day for an entire convoy to pass. During his journey, he visited numerous cities, buying supplies and donating his gold to the poor (Islam values charity, especially when you make a pilgrimage to it's holy city, you REALLY want to make as much good deeds as possible). What he didn't know that, once he reached Mecca, the gold circulation on the place he visited has become so saturated that it crashed the gold market price. When he's back from Mecca, he realized what he has done and simply buying back all the gold he has circulated in order to stabilize the market. That's how rich he is, he single-handedly destabilizes a gold market of an entire nation (or possibly entire Africa) by having way too much gold, then simply buy back all gold in circulation to stabilize the market back. No one has ever repeated what he did, even today

  • @LivingCrusader
    @LivingCrusader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Capitalists: Interesting
    Socialists: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

    • @winchesterchua3311
      @winchesterchua3311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What about Communists?

    • @JK-gu3tl
      @JK-gu3tl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Rayyan Ali That's why I support market economy.

    • @Karan-zg9bm
      @Karan-zg9bm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Rayyan Ali socialsim always fails.

    • @Karan-zg9bm
      @Karan-zg9bm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Rayyan Ali soy boy . #LEARNTOCODE

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Proudhonist : This video is about thieves and criminals.
      Marxists : Tax'em 70%
      Conclusion-> Loses more than half of their property.

  • @sebastianastner6711
    @sebastianastner6711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Simple History: Talks about the richest people
    Also Simple History: Puts 6 ads in the video
    I feel like i am the rich guy myself

  • @adam5381
    @adam5381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "If you have oil, you have money.
    And if you have money, you have power."

    • @masterofrockets
      @masterofrockets 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They had so much power, they even got monopoly legislation passed.

    • @really.rhino12
      @really.rhino12 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      America be like

    • @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889
      @presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But to achieve all of that, the first thing you need to have is BE SMART.

    • @NathonJones
      @NathonJones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Then you get the women."

    • @JohnSmith-tc7ti
      @JohnSmith-tc7ti 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The spice must flow!

  • @bobholly3843
    @bobholly3843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You missed with Rockefeller that when the gov't did break up standard oil, he just bought up a majority of stock in all the smaller companies, essentially owning all of them anyway.

  • @emmaisvibing9843
    @emmaisvibing9843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Egypts Economy: *Exists*
    Mansa Musa: *Im about to end this mans whole career.*

  • @EdVarkarion
    @EdVarkarion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    7:33 Rockefeller died at 98 from heart problems
    More like he ran out of bribe money for the grim reaper.

  • @rosedruid
    @rosedruid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Percentage of contemporary planetary wealth might have been a really interesting metric to compare across time periods.

  • @stormtrooper4450
    @stormtrooper4450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It’s so crazy that when you compare modern billionaires wealth to ancient billionaires you like to say is that it

  • @businessexplained9578
    @businessexplained9578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Borat?
    Much love, your friends at Business Explained!!

  • @ordinary_magician
    @ordinary_magician 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Now I want to know who had the biggest debt in history

    • @TheHeavyModd
      @TheHeavyModd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      USA

    • @lasombra1469
      @lasombra1469 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Al Capone to the IRS

    • @l0remipsum991
      @l0remipsum991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      US college students combined

    • @broly7643
      @broly7643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The entire nation of Zimbabwe.

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're were so in debt, the descendants of the OG collectors are still trying hit up their corpse

  • @noelblack8159
    @noelblack8159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That’s simple!
    *Germans in 1923*

    • @sherwingonsalves8821
      @sherwingonsalves8821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey man I got 4 trillion I would like to buy that bread and cheese

    • @Gameflyer001
      @Gameflyer001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or Zimbabwe in the present day, with Venezuela rapidly approaching.

  • @thebeansinthebackofyourfridge9
    @thebeansinthebackofyourfridge9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact: William hurst the newspaper giant was the direct inspiration for famous film character citizen kane

  • @justinpachi3707
    @justinpachi3707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:47 On the note of Crassus. His wealth is largely exaggerated. By the end of the first triumvirate, both Caesar and Pompey eclipsed Crassus in wealth and power. Caesar thanks to his conquests in Gaul was becoming very wealthy. This was one of the reasons why Crassus was so motivated to go out and try to fight against the Parthians. He felt himself becoming subordinate to what should have been his equals.
    Augustus himself was wealthier than all of them. He had Egypt made his own personal province. Egypt during the classical age was extremely wealthy. Augustus poured money into it to help rebuild neglected infrastructure and to improve administration so that it became a major cash cow for him and his dynasty. The Caesars, or the Julio-Claudians were one of the richest families to have ever existed by this fact alone.

    • @l0remipsum991
      @l0remipsum991 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crassus' common sense got clouded by his greed. Imagine fighting a mounted army in an open terrain.

  • @MrTeddy12397
    @MrTeddy12397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    video about the richest people and Mansa Musa gets only 5 seconds of screentime?????

    • @The_Harylaba
      @The_Harylaba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      How you guys manage to create race issues literally out of nothing is mind boggling. Dude, if you have the source material to talk about him, why don't you make your own video?

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo5962
      @iwantsexseemyvideo5962 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😡😡

    • @MrTeddy12397
      @MrTeddy12397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@The_Harylaba i dont care about black people or asians, but Mansa Musa was literally the richest person to EVER exist and he still doesn't get the most screentime.

    • @SploderZimAnderzoon
      @SploderZimAnderzoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@The_Harylaba already have a video about it watch it on ted ed

    • @bnap3221
      @bnap3221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bobjohnson6946 it’s not racist. If an african channel want to make a video of their own with rich black people there is nothing stopping them.

  • @NoName-ef3jq
    @NoName-ef3jq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:50 his eyes are so sharp they pierced through the dollar bill.

  • @vivetv3710
    @vivetv3710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact: Mansa Musa’s real name was Kankan Musa. Mansa (Monza) is Mandinka for king. In some parts of Mali and Senegal, mentioning his name can get you killed.

    • @AO00720
      @AO00720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Why??? Would his name could get you killed

    • @vivetv3710
      @vivetv3710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AO00720 Because many people believe his spending of gold (largely in reference to what he spent on the hajj) is behind why Mali and Senegal (both were part of the empire back then) are so poor, which isn’t true at all. All the same, in many places, mentioning him can get you killed and in many more, griots (West African oral storytellers) just refuse to mention him. Initially, griots claimed they didn’t like him because he had adopted many more Arab/Islamic customs than previous rulers, which in turn affected Mali’s culture.

  • @nuppusaurus3830
    @nuppusaurus3830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    It's a shame you just breezed through Mansa Musa. He went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, giving out so much gold that he caused inflation of the price of gold in many cities, making gold almost worthless.

    • @TheHeavyModd
      @TheHeavyModd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You mean deflation right?

    • @nuppusaurus3830
      @nuppusaurus3830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheHeavyModd ah yeah, inflation of prices, deflation of value of gold

  • @robbercopgamer
    @robbercopgamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congratulations Simple History, 3M subscribers !

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "I grew up during the Great Depression. Buncha old rich bastards screwed up the country but did they suffer? No! The little people suffered! If ya ask me, the world would be a whole lot better without them!"
    - Nines Rodriguez

  • @theparadigm8149
    @theparadigm8149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:00 I’m SO sorry, but the way he said “who” was really funny to me! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Money corrupts the mind. I'd rather seize the means of production

    • @CRENOKOGOD
      @CRENOKOGOD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly your country has none
      Jk I thought it was funny

    • @WeegeeSlayer123
      @WeegeeSlayer123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Better dead than red!

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You do that and people will starve, and revolt, miraculously communism somehow manages to thwart even that though, more effectively than anything really, ironic, revolution born from something, that will not permit revolution

  • @valentins.2637
    @valentins.2637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Based on the three ads and the long outro to stretch the video Simple History plans to join these guys ;)

  • @baboonchicken5078
    @baboonchicken5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Something that was just simple like an iron coin used for money was worthless at that time. Now it is worth a lot

  • @garufi4259
    @garufi4259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’d love to see a collab between you guys, infographics show and the other German channel, kruzergrat or something

  • @joaomanoelkormann7032
    @joaomanoelkormann7032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Me: december can't be worst
    December: (diamonds shadow in yhe sky of a beach)

  • @muamer9704
    @muamer9704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2020:People who sell hand sanitizers

  • @timothychen4103
    @timothychen4103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You Forgot Solomon, King of Israel. He made silver as common as stones.

    • @jayman4569
      @jayman4569 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      True dat

    • @darnit1944
      @darnit1944 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Practically we can flood the market with silver today and make it as cheap as rocks.
      But we have to keep the price high

  • @Prankester6856
    @Prankester6856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Small correction: Julius ceaser wasn't the emperor he was only a dictator of the Roman republic only his adopted son Octavian or famously known as Augustus was the first emperor of the Roman empire

  • @mattypatty9523
    @mattypatty9523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Rockefeller was really amazing. I could only imagine what great things he could’ve done with that money

  • @raymondwalters3417
    @raymondwalters3417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You missed the part on Rockefeller where the splitting up of Standard Oil made the shares of the separate companies worth more than they were combined, which then made him the richest man in history. Some Anti-Trust Act

  • @dyei5valkenv128
    @dyei5valkenv128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why does the first story sound like the plot of star wars the clone wars

    • @dyei5valkenv128
      @dyei5valkenv128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like the Senate and everything in one guy taking over the whole entire thing

    • @iamalwaysrightistrue7286
      @iamalwaysrightistrue7286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      George Lucas was inspired by Ancient Rome

  • @retrogaming6960
    @retrogaming6960 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of those channels thats really worth it to subscribe, you sub you learn.

  • @danialzidaneamarty8493
    @danialzidaneamarty8493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Simple history
    I have request
    I was very interested to know the evolution of weapon and armor
    From stone age to Gun age and what year..
    Can you please make the video?

  • @alex.harrison
    @alex.harrison 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was so much more to be said about Mansa Musa's ridiculous wealth, the story is wild

  • @Edhead.
    @Edhead. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:15 no I’m sorry it wasn’t anything to do with satisfying his soul, it was a common torture for wealthy men back then (classics history degree here)

    • @catetmax1812
      @catetmax1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      torture.... a dead man?

    • @BeingFireRetardant
      @BeingFireRetardant 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I vaguely remember a game of thrones dude eating a faceful of molten gold...

    • @Edhead.
      @Edhead. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@catetmax1812 he wasn’t dead yet...

    • @Edhead.
      @Edhead. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BeingFireRetardant yeah that’s a reference to this historical act

  • @hammadiftw1742
    @hammadiftw1742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You forgot muammar gaddafi, the libyan leader who led them for 50+ years until his death in 2011. He had 200 billion worth

  • @MJ-ey5pc
    @MJ-ey5pc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bruh where’s Pablo Escobar Wye?

  • @DerSingh0329
    @DerSingh0329 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Teacher : So what do we do in free time???
    Thomas Shelby : Expand Family Business
    Teacher : no...

  • @HuesingProductions
    @HuesingProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    James Bisonette

  • @augustgreig9420
    @augustgreig9420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You failed to mention dictator types and emperors. I believe they said Caeser was worth around $400 billion, based on all he had control over. You could also add guys like Gaddafi, Hussein, and arguably even Putin. Of course there's also people like the Saudi Royals, and the old money of the royal families of Europe, but you really need to measure this wealth by family rather than individuals. The Rothschilds also fall into this category, but we really have no idea what they are worth, if it's even measurable.
    And then, there are the mostly unnamed. This includes bankers from the city of London, unknown Royals, and other people who choose to remain anonymous, such as the owners of central banks. And you also have fortunes which are really hidden in such a way that it's virtually impossible to estimate.
    This includes people like the Rockefellers, who have converted much of their fortune into power rather than assets. All of the "foundations" and "non-profits" that people like this own and run allows them to control things in a way that they can profit from endlessly, and no necessarily in monetary terms.
    It's very difficult to get the average person to understand the relationship between money and power, and why people who are already multi billionaires continue to "work" and try to expand their wealth, as well as their power rather than retiring into a life of leisure or whatever they want. But you must understand what kind of person has the ambition to do these kinds of things. Power is intoxicating, and studies show increases in wealth are inversely proportional to empathy. Which means, even if these people don't start out as psychopaths, they end up as something similar.

  • @aa898246
    @aa898246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Grand Burger

  • @Admiral45-10
    @Admiral45-10 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:20 it's worth to mention, how he got into idea of setting up a ,,Rockefeller Foundation" - one day in XIXth Century he sent his representatives to Northeastern Austria-Hungary, in today's Southeastern Poland, to meet Ignacy Łukasiewicz - the first man that had ever started an oil industry, found first usage of oil, and - what was most important for Rockefeller - found a way to extract petroleum. When those representatives came to him, offering as much money as he wants for selling them a receipt, Ignacy gave a full lecture, how to do it. Representatives wrote it down and asked for price. In response Ignacy Łukasiewicz said, that if this Rockefeller was really such a nice man, then tell him to use this money in positive way - support local communities, help poor, and etc. That's how Rockefeller Foundation was founded.
    To be honest this Polish oil baron had less better end. He was also using his huge fortune to fund local communities, schools, and etc., but his oil empire had collapsed some time after his death. Then his wife, that got used to lavish lifestyle in which she was living, couldn't handle nor the business, or huge money she inherited, not so long time after various people started to demand money that ,,her husband was owning them" and died in poverty.

  • @anxiousseal556
    @anxiousseal556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mansa Musa is so rich he deflated the gold value.

  • @raypit7961
    @raypit7961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That man that first discovered gold nugets: MoM lOoK iM rIcH aNd In YoUtUbE

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Donald Trump: *Nobody's a richer President than me.*

  • @Grant62
    @Grant62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It just amazes me that people can become so incredibly powerful.

  • @redseagaming7832
    @redseagaming7832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Here's the thing without these rich people there wouldn't be a lot of jobs in the United States that's why I celebrate these rich people that created tons of jobs for people

    • @aliali-ce3yf
      @aliali-ce3yf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats bs

    • @flarvin8945
      @flarvin8945 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So jobs are created out of the kindness in rich people’s hearts? lol

    • @Jay-mo9pl
      @Jay-mo9pl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Flarvin No, Jobs are created because Rich People don’t do all the work themselves. They hire people to do it for them.

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aliali-ce3yf whether you hate them or not rich people create jobs Amazon needs hundreds of thousands of employees to have their facilities run smoothly. Walmart needs hundreds of thousands of people to run their stores smoothly all these great wealthy corporations hire people and create the middle class. Those who don't see this are delusional

    • @flarvin8945
      @flarvin8945 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jay-mo9pl jobs are created when there is a need for a product or service. The USA economy is fueled by consumer spending, which the middle and lower classes make up the majority. You know supply and demand stuff, not rich people feeling generous. lol

  • @triplefish4579
    @triplefish4579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    U.S. Government: John D. Rockerfeller no more oil
    Rockerfeller: ok I'm retired
    U.S. Government: TRIGGERED

  • @unknownseizure
    @unknownseizure 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "what would you do with all that money"
    *Uhm, I definitely wouldn't simp...*

  • @noobguy5533
    @noobguy5533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please try to make a video on galwan valley clash in the future...when its details would be known to public

  • @1vanguard4
    @1vanguard4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Never been this early. 1 minut after release

  • @mrshootinputin7251
    @mrshootinputin7251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about the king of Thailand? He is the current richest monarch.

  • @muaddib.atreides
    @muaddib.atreides 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    36 seconds ago.. Earliest I've ever been

  • @fooxik70
    @fooxik70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a very ironic legend that Rocefeller recived all the necessary oil processing knowledge from Polish inventor and philanthropist Ignacy Łukasiewicz(founder of the first oil mine in the world) for free because Ignacy didn't wanted to create monopoly and wanted to help society.

  • @vinnyx3585
    @vinnyx3585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Easy question, me

    • @lazyproeagle
      @lazyproeagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't even know who you are

    • @betrayal6231
      @betrayal6231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lazyproeagle r/ whoosh

    • @lazyproeagle
      @lazyproeagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@betrayal6231 no i knew it was a joke i was just quoting thanos

  • @griffinjohnson3858
    @griffinjohnson3858 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love simple history keep up the content fellas

  • @cuga6917
    @cuga6917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    See I would be rich with a simple history t-shirt

  • @Ibangedyourmum69
    @Ibangedyourmum69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simple history congrats on reaching 3 million subs :)

  • @Young_SlayerKO
    @Young_SlayerKO 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simple history love your video

  • @justsomepersononyoutube9271
    @justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The infographic show owns this channel it's so simple

  • @L.P.1987
    @L.P.1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could be Inca emperors, sican kings or mochica aristocracy.
    The most important incan temple (the Coricancha) had the walls covered with gold, a garden of gold and silver statues of life-size animals and plants, and even a solid gold statue of the Inca Huayna Cápac (of a child size).
    And the Sipán Lord, an old member of the mochica aristocracy, had literally an entire suit made of gold.

  • @Ezio_auditore_da_Firenze_1459
    @Ezio_auditore_da_Firenze_1459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pls do Also one about richest companies

  • @clydemarshall8095
    @clydemarshall8095 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well done.

  • @amarogos2023
    @amarogos2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Tsar Nicholas II? Didn't he own A LOT of gold?

  • @bradley8575
    @bradley8575 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    100 Dollar Bills:Everywhere in the Video. Benjamin Franklin:CHA CHINGGGG$$$$

  • @Ol-zv7nh
    @Ol-zv7nh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "'I'm J.P Morgan, the ghost of rich dudes past" - Monopoly Man

  • @yungstallion2201
    @yungstallion2201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:36
    Thats a HOI4 sound not a turkey

  • @teddoed2553
    @teddoed2553 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Name the CEO of any hand sanitizer company

  • @darknessesdarknesses2492
    @darknessesdarknesses2492 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your realistic depiction of The Zucc.

  • @MrLiminalSpace
    @MrLiminalSpace 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a really enjoyable video

  • @RandomYT05_01
    @RandomYT05_01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can't forget about J.P. Morgan. He was a rich and famous man and may have sank the Titanic while some of his rivals were on it.

  • @yuanromecasano1893
    @yuanromecasano1893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mansa Musa:Aight im in the future since the after life let me and-
    *sees MrBeast*
    Mansa Musa:It's Beautiful

  • @MentLeee
    @MentLeee 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did anyone else think about Scrooge McDuck when he mentioned coins and pictured the rich guys swimming in it?

  • @masterofrockets
    @masterofrockets 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Government: Wow our citizens are gaining too much power, need to make laws to stop that. Can you imagine what an individual would do with economic power?
    Citizens: ..............

  • @calmchugh2601
    @calmchugh2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bruh the turkey sounds melted my heart

  • @johnjack2260
    @johnjack2260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you do a video of the richest countries over history? Like from Rome to China to the shipping industry in britain to the us?