The richest person who ever lived - BBC REEL
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- In the era of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Wall Street and Big Tech, it is hard to fathom a more prosperous time in human history. However, many believe Mansa Musa’s wealth outdoes that of all modern billionaires.
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. So, why is it that he has largely disappeared from the western historical imagination?
Video by Dominika Ozynska & Adrian Hartrick
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I am South African and I always say we never learn about Mansa Musa and many great contributions that Africa made to civilization.
SLAVERY was his true kegacy
When I first read about Mansa Musa back in the late 1990's, it was documented that he had Trillions in gold and salt mines.They try to subtract a few hundred million every decade or so.
Inflation?
When you read about this, did the authors provide any evidence or explain how they arrived at the exact figure for his alleged wealth?
Wow!! 😮 Who knew the richest man that ever lived was a black man?? I didn’t. They need to teach this in all the schools to our children. Thank you for sharing this information!! ❤
Black Muslim
Actually, Genghis Khan was the richest man on earth
They do teach this in schools
they do teach this in schools because I’m currently learning about this in History Lessons and to be honest I’m not really shocked about this
@juanyepez8068 Nah, it was mansa, khan had money. Mansa had wealth and islands. Overall mansa was the richest in the world. You can google it too or search it up on here between the two.
"Mali" in swahili means wealth
In arabic مالي or Mali mean my treasure
In shona its Mari...very similar its like our languages also tell of this story in some way
I heard about this years ago. One of the first universities were in Mali and Morocco.
Timbuktu is the birth place of universities
@@philippevianeykottokotto6519 whole world accepts that Nalanda mahavihara was the first university in the world. Students from Asia, South East Asia, even Europe studied there. You can visit the site today. It is officially world's oldest and first university.
He lowered the price of gold when he went to Cairo.
He destroy the economy of Cairo just by giving away gold to the poor , it took decade for the economy of Egypt to recover ,and at the time Cairo was one of the most important cities around the world , Mansa musa controlled the gold price of the entire world pretty much at the time .
Take that, Jeff Bezos.
Praising a slave owner isn't the win you think it is.
Bezos is real.
@ronald8792 so was Mansa Musa
Jef Bezos never was a slave owner
“There were empires in Africa called Kush…..Timbuktu, where every race came to get books to learn from Black Teachers, who taught Greeks and Romans” - Nas
Amazing
I would enjoy being reincarnated as a scholar in Mansa Musa's golden era (pun intended)
I am dumb what was the pun 😩😩
@@bigdp_hits_that a golden era usually means a period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement. The pun here being that mansa musa had an imaginable amount of gold lol
@@bigdp_hits_thatall mansa musa live time was gold. 😊
AFRICA HAS A LOT OF SURPRISES FOR THE UNCULTURED POEPLE. THOSE WHO SPEND THEIR TIME TO INSULTE AFRICAINS AND TREAT THEM LIKE NOTHING SHOULD KNOW THAT AFRICA IS MORE THAN THE EYES CAN SEE.
“So go dig some more gold there Kanye West Africa!” Jeff Bezos
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
it's funny how the manipulation of the historical discourse can change the destiny of entire nations around the world.
You mean an entire continent.
well, people who control the past could be overturned and their efforts lost. so they dont control the future.
Netflix be like let's make black viking
She said "Oh you Rich Rich??!"
I told her nah but really 🧢
West Africa! Yeah!!
@@Endgame707 Mali or Nigeria?
Mali
Mali
He also believed it was his duty to convert the empire to Islam - which in some cases he did by force. However, Musa also continued to allow slavery in his empire and owned thousands of slaves himself, many of them in the mines that produced his wealth. Mansa Musa, as he appears on The Catalan Atlas.
Conclusion- without the backs of African Slaves Mansa Musa could not have built his large wealth..SLAVERY was his Legacy..and unfortunately is the path further African Empires took with them forward.
From Wikipedia: Musa is known for his wealth and generosity. He has been subject to popular claims that he is the wealthiest person in history, but his actual wealth is not known with any certainty.
This is why Wikipedia is not a reliable resource. It’s was a slave based system of labor.
Because he was black
@@EmpoweredEngineering
No because it’s highly unlikely that he was anywhere near the wealthiest person to have ever lived.
@@drstevej2527 explain
@@EmpoweredEngineering
Explain what exactly? The Roman emperors and rulers of various empires of China were worth trillions in today’s money. This notion that a ruler of a small west African state was the wealthiest man in history demonstrates a profound ignorance of ancient history.
We were savages yet our artefacts, art and metalworks were all pilfered.
He did that probably that years king was helping and sharing I guess that years was peaceful
Where are the written records of any of this
Much of what is known about Musa comes from Arabic sources written after his hajj, especially the writings of Al-Umari and Ibn Khaldun. While in Cairo during his hajj, Musa befriended officials such as Ibn Amir Hajib, who learned about him and his country from him and later passed on that information to historians such as Al-Umari.
@@TheBatmanNJ thank you!!
african tradition was passed musically and orally
but France, is one of the worlds largest gold distributors to this day and there isn’t a single native gold deposit. it’s because they own a fraction of mansas wealth
@@trck2bnkz AKA there are no sources which even come close to evidencing the claim Mansa Musa was the richest man in history
Real wealth can be used to buy goods and services. But for Mansa Musa, living in West Africa in 1300, there was little to buy. Slaves, yes. Camels, yes. But nothing compared to the vast amount of goods one could purchase today. There was just nothing to buy.
How can BBC admit and call out all of those pretty much involved in the Atlantic trade but black celebrities can’t.
Aaj ki sham mansha ke naam (kya kahne lajawab fantastic urop ke sultan mansha hhhmmmm.......
crazy
What about ghengis khan?
Yeah, but did he have fridge magnets though?
10:38 am 3/23/2022
Buenas.. Yo creo el hombre mas rico de la historia fue.. Felipe ll de españa.. Este monarca fue emperador de 2 imperios el español y el portugués con todos los recursos naturales que esto implica.. Oro, plata, estaño estos 2 monarcas fueron absolutos y disponían los recursos de sus respectivos imperios a su antojo.. . Manza musa tenía más oro que felipe ll de españa? El rey Felipe tenía un imperio global.. Manza musa no.. Solo tenía un pequeño reyno. Rico en oro y sal.. Pero en América y demás colonias españolas no tenia acaso los mismos recursos auriferos qué hasta ahora se muestran inagotables.. Además de pieles, piedras preciosas de africa,brasil, Colombia y Venezuela..e India.. El monopolio mundial de el azúcar y especias(condimentos tan preciados en aquel momento momento.. Sus galeones surcaban los mares del mundo conocido cargados de tesoros.. Lo que provoca envidia en Europa.. Inglaterra, Francia y holanda mandan a sus piratas a asaltar esos galeones y robarles(quien no ha visto alguna vez una película de piratas hecha en hollywood) y también atacando ciudades españolas en América y el océano Pacífico para desposeerlos de sus tesoros lo que provóca la guerra anglo-española la cual ganó España(tratado de Londres 1604)..el escritor inglés Thomas Hugh:"felipe ll el dueño del mundo".. Dónde nos describe la financiación ala dinastía ming en China con la plata (ag) se las minas de Zacatecas y Guanajuato en México.. Iniciando la primera globalizacion de la historia del mundo.. Como dijo el rey Felipe "en mis dominios no se opone el sol".. Manza musa pudo decir lo mismo?... Saludos desde Fontainebleau fr 🇨🇵
Actually, Genghis Khan was the richest man on earth
Which source that you read ?
Liar must it be white
I want to see the wealth of mansa musa 🇵🇰
Inshallah
You’ll need hallucinogens
Yall all know the only people who have downplayed others history... lol its all good truth speaks
Muslim king
You mean Ferdinand Marcos wasn't the richest man to ever live? /s
Nope
Joni
i though king solomon
Solo creo que esta historia tiene más de leyenda.. Y no una historia tangible.. Mansa musa tenía más dinero que felipe ll de españa.. Que fue dueño de América conocida con todos recursos naturales que esto implica.. Oro, plata(ag), cobre.. El monopolio mundial del azúcar y la plata (ag).. Mansa musa podría haber dicho como lo hizo felipe ll de españa :en mis dominios nunca se opone el sol ".. Creo que no.. Los dineros del rey español Felipe ll son hasta ahora insuperables.. Saludos desde Fontainebleau fr 🇨🇵
Elon musk is South African not from the United States
Anyone else brought here bc Ye educated you?
I get ALL my education from Kanye.
Nice keep repairing broken history. The truth will free us all.
Follow the 10 commandments Christians and ask for forgiveness and repent from your sins!!
Who says Africans are poor?
It is so weird that right before mass colonization, world exploration and technical advancement in Europe, Africa had everything it need to dominate but didn't, I wonder why?
It used to like black muslims used to rule over Spain before ethnic cleansing of them. There were black ministers and even black rulers in India under Mughal Empire and other Islamic Empire. But due to civil war within muslims planted by British and French muslims became weak in science technology and education which lead to their enslavement by Europe. There was time when half of Europe was under muslim rule. That's when all Christians who were mostly white unlike muslims who has people of all races decided to group up and conspire against muslims using muslims they did this in every part of world caused huge civil wars and when muslims is to become on particular they used to attack and control the territory.
He also believed it was his duty to convert the empire to Islam - which in some cases he did by force. However, Musa also continued to allow slavery in his empire and owned thousands of slaves himself, many of them in the mines that produced his wealth. Mansa Musa, as he appears on The Catalan Atlas.
Conclusion- without the backs of African Slaves Mansa Musa could not have built his large wealth..SLAVERY was his Legacy..and unfortunately is the path further African Empires took with them forward.
Which country in the world DIDN'T got build by slaves?
British Empire became strong by holding slaves in it's colonies.
Same goes for all West European nations such as France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands. East European nations are a bit backward than West Europe, because they got little to no chance of enslaving people overseas.
USA enslaved Native Americans and made them work.
King Solomon was the richest man to ever live this is completely false you can't compare mansa musa wealth to that of King Solomon. Musa was rich yeah but King Solomon had not only abundant riches over (2.1 trillion) but he had wisdom and divine blessings from God.
You're an example of what the scholars of this video are articulating. They've expressed that European colonialism erased the significance of the wealth of Mansa Musa. And here you are posting comments opposing these scholars using King Solomon with no scholarly foundation.
Shameful!
Manza musa no fue el hombre más rico de la historia.. Ese fue felipe ll de españa monarca del imperio español y portugués.. Saludos desde Fontainebleau fr 🇨🇵
Nah, I feel good knowing that I have more access to luxuries, like sanitation, food refrigeration, and internet, than the richest person who ever lived.
U have no bitchez tho
LMFAO you think he did not have luxuries?? The internet smh he had better than the internet more like a direct connection.... pull your shoes up silly
U can’t be this dumb
The richest person in history didn’t have luxuries or sanitation? And I’m guessing he didn’t need refrigeration since he more likely than not ate fresh food daily. I Don’t think he was eating leftover pizza
The dumbest thing someone can say is that your life is better then another person. America has fooled you into thinking these things make your life better than someone who doesn't have these things.
I wonder how many slaves he owned?
+u=we
@@tonythomas7244That is very insightful. I think he might of owned a little more then that.
He himself was a former slave.
Being a slave at that time did not have the meaning associated with the Atlantic Slave Trade. Civil Servants, Doctors, etc could be slaves.
@@leocam2003 What did it mean then?
@@pete5691 This is available on Amazon Slavery: A World History
by Milton Meltzer
Does anyone agree that it was the power of gold rather than the goodness of Islam which made Mansa Musa great?
No
Nope Cope
@@FactsWithActs Cute reply.
Why do you disagree? Gold is the world's standard. Muslim countries without gold or oil do not prosper economically - except Iran under the Shaw, which was influenced by Christian values.
@@christianfrommuslim
Because it is contingent on why you think he's great in the first place.
Hope this helps
Islam inspired Mansa Musa to give that amount of gold to others :) There’s plenty of stories about muslims who give alot even if they don’t have much themselves bc Islam inspires us to do this. Even nowadays there are muslims that do these kind of stuff and when you ask them why they do that, they say they do it for the sake of Allah. There are beautiful inspirational stories about the prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and his companions that gave their own houses away even when they needed it themselves. One of the companions named Abu Bakr (ra) was a rich man and he spend all of his money in the way of Islam.
Must’ve had a ton of slaves to create that much wealth
Yes, and those slaves were allowed to intermarry with the tribe, reach levels of power in council and maintain their own culture and language as well as acquire a new one.
Slave is a vague term.
In Islam, the slave is like a part of your family and had right to your luxuries. And the owner is obligated to free him if he cannot provide his rights.
NOTHING like the slaves of America
@@FactsWithActsschooled him 😂
We are free to imagine anything we want about this imaginary king and his imaginary wealth.
No richest person to ever live was NIUEAN
Marginalization, Dude. Get real.. All I'm saying is, If it will be, the end of. Then it will. It just surprises(not really) me, that the people who don't (they say so, atheists) are the first to claim ownership? But how? Learn to loose. Stalin,Adolf?? Mature
Lol blaming european slave trade for why Musa isnt famous...yet he bought and sold slaves
They are to blame,the British started colonization hundreds of years after his death, White lady can't even speak without studdering, she tells no truth,
Europeans are just saints, right?look at what they did to the Irish, they don't want Africans to have no history, let yall tell it Africans just came out of.caves living in the wild
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Man shut up
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Africa lost, end of story. They were once great but if you do the research you’ll know that Africa couldn’t compete with other militaries. And so because they failed to be innovative, then and now, they lose.
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According to the the book of Guinness World Records 2001, the richest person in history was John Rockefeller.
Musa dwarfs even him.
You guys have no clue how much wealth Mansa Musa had
@@FactsWithActs But you do?
@@sawgunner85 More than the head of the family Rockefeller?
Actually, Genghis Khan was the richest man on earth
To early to see funny comments
You weren’t early it’s just nobody wants to see this I don’t know why
No matter the longitude this is too funny. Not in the haha sense either.
This is a commonly regurgitated myth. The wealthiest people to ever live were the Caesars of the Roman Empire. The idea that a king from a small region in Africa was wealthier than the head of an Empire that spanned three continents is ridiculous.
Hold my beer, close but nah.
Even,. Herod the Great ! .....
(Read, Josephus Antiquities)
had more money (individually) than the richest Roman(s) who ever lived.
Alexander the Great was the richest single man in the World in ANY Age of wealth.
"Great" Alexander didn't earn that title by winning geographically or militarily ALONE,
He captured the Persian Empire of 5,000 years and Empires gold and fortunes when he defeated their Empire under Darius. All in Persipolis.
@@lorenzomcnally6629
According to whom? So AG was wealthier than the Roman Empire? Are you serious? He is in no list for such a position. The world economy under him was tiny by comparison relative to Rome. Try citing an actual source!
Rome captured Greece Persia and three times the population in Europe Asia and Africa.
What idiot thinks then anyone in antiquity knows how to compare these figures vs modern scholars?
@@drstevej2527 according to me. PhD me.
Sources? 50 years of intense research by me.
Lecturing since I was eleven years old to rooms of adults about the SOURCE of 95% of the Worlds deadly pandemics come from Asia, specifically China.
Pandemics that have killed hundreds of millions over the millennia. Including the escaped engineered Wuhan laboratory virus with American taxpayers money a weaponized " gain a function" corona virus.
@@drstevej2527 The only idiot is you. Math and history erase buttons on full blast. Name your sources seems to me opinions are like ass holes. And you definitely have one.
@@lorenzomcnally6629
Meaning you can’t cite anything. Remember this lesson in epistemology!
#Feminism
THE RICHEST PERSON WHO EVER LIVED WAS KING SALOMON, SON OF KING DAVID!!
Fictional
@@gervorusreturns4300 no
Big No
Read the Bible!
Old testament!
He wasn’t black 🤡
And the sky is green too huh
He was mandika so shuddup
and the ocean is also white not blue -Euro-nut retards
Yes he's dark skin
Oh yeah, everyone is blue
No, that's not true. The richest man ever is the richest man now. World economy has been expending forever, not shrinking. He is fascinating nonetheless.
Mansa Musa owned Gold Reserves. No one person can do that today. None of the big 3 richest guys include Warren Buffet don't own the trade routes, is the actual STATE that makes the laws that benefit them, and Emperor of All things that are in his interest. Bill Gates doesn't own the minerals that go into to making chips to run his software, Musk doesn't own the materials that make up the batteries that run his electric vehicles, Bezos doesn't own the people that produce his products. See how that works. Mansa Musa owned the labor and production, all of the minerals, trade routes, politicians, and universities. He was the STATE. It is hard to believe that Africans were present on earth 100,000 years prior to the first European being birthed.
Completely false.
Owning Africa and most of the gold on Earth and still being humble, adored and respected ain't for everyone.
Jeff Bezos has to abide by US law 🤭
No dummy his wealth can't be calculated obviously you didn't pay attention based just off inflation and estimation of his giving away of his wealth from then to the present his wealth is double that of the richest man today your suffering from cognitive dissonance when the facts are in your face you still don't believe it why cuz he's a black man....yeah precisely
i'd rather be middle class today than rich 500 years ago...
Propaganda FROM CRITICAL RACE THEORY
Nope your just late dummy
Where is the written record of this guy? I know there’s a lot of written history from Africa in this time but where in particular is this historical record?
@@jaycee30865 use google stupid
Africa is one of the richest continents, if it is not the richest continent in the world. The colonialism destroyed all Africa's structure. They still have the natural resources and God bless them in abundance.
@@tashalorm4313 please. Colonialism has basically nothing to do with the utter disarray of Africa. The only buildings in the whole continent are a result of colonialism. Or influence from colonists. Otherwise there wouldn’t be one brick on top of another in the whole place.
Nah. Musa Mansa fortune wasn't a tenth of the richest man who ever lived.
The richest man who ever lived was
ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
When Alexanders army defeated The Gigantic AND OLD great Persian Empire, he marched to a city called Persipolis in ancient Iran.
Here his army discovered a palace that contained a massive complex of buildings more like warehouses of GOLD, SILVER, and PRECIOUS STONES
that equalled the entire worlds known
GOLD RESERVES, several thousand years of ancient Middle Eastern empires CAPTURED GOLD.
His army of 35,000 men all became INSTANT
BILLIONAIRES in modern terms.
From them on as his Army marched East and was followed by 100,000 assorted slaves, merchants and business's
All dedicated to servicing basically
a rolling ARMY
OF BILLIONAIRE MERCENARY GREEKS
who
spent MILLIONS DAILY servicing the Greatest Western Civilization Army and General history has ever known.
Several thousand years of gold mined by slaves and held by countless empires that ruled and fell and was in the possession of the Great Persian Empire WHEN
Alexander........" liberated' IT........
from Darius and his massive Empire.
The problem is that most likely Alexander story is just a tale and work of guessing whereas Mansa Musa has atleast a historical record both oral and written mentioned abt the event of Him spraying gold along His way to Mecca both by Meccan as well as the Egyptian.
@@andanandan6061 Alexanders story of Persipolis and the the one year it took to empty the ultra vast treasure city of the Persian Empire is well documented. Start, with the ancient author "Arrian," Alexanders life story. This Mansa Muss is just another WOKE AFRICAN WANNABE story. He was undoubtedly drowning in gold, but he Wasn't BY FAR THE RICHEST HUMAN BEING IN HIS TIME OR ANY TIME. The Egyptian and Roman Empires had individuals as wealthy as Mansa Musa, but Herod the Great was richer than any of them and this Mana Musa person is closer to Herod the Greats wealth than Alexander the Great conquest of THOUSANDS OF YEARS ANF GOLD MINES WEALTH.
25,000 Macedonians became INSTANT
BILLIONAIRES IN TODAYS WEALTH ALONE.
Good luck with your quest proving your opinion you will need it.
@@lorenzomcnally6629 thats why the Moeslem schoolar divided narration based on the eye witness. Arrian wrote Alexander but what year ?
Story of Mansa written and narrated by those who actually met him so it is more reliable than Alexander.
@@andanandan6061 you keep believing that
I also know the Muslims ILLEGALLY REMOVED MANY Prophet Mohomets (pbuh) HAND WRITTEN VERSES OF THE KORAN. In the 1200's.
Something Mohomets himself COMMANDED NEVER TO DO !.......
SO even today even the Saudi Royal Family can not claim the wealthiest human beings ever.
Alexander was the Greatest SINGLE wealthiest person in human History. THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF GOLD PERSIAN EMPIRE & EGYPTIAN EMPIRE GOLD, SUMMERIAN EMPIRE GOLD ASSYRIAN GOLD
MANSA MUSA was insignificant. A fairy tale to make Muslims feel better about Islam is supreme of all Abraham's children.
I respect my right to know differently.
I read my Koran every day.
The writers of the KORAN after removing the prophets (Satanic Verses) can NOT BE TRUSTED.
@@lorenzomcnally6629mao Alexander's story wasn't much real. Everyone knows mansa Musa was the richest/wealthiest man to ever live.
INCREDIBLE ~ @theofficialsashasmithbillion_