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Old 03-14-2015, 04:26 PM
 
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Old 03-15-2015, 01:18 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Any man ( mankind) who has a direct relationship with God via
His son Yeshua is/ are the richest. The rest are moot.
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Old 03-15-2015, 07:11 AM
 
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Any man ( mankind) who has a direct relationship with God via
His son Yeshua is/ are the richest. The rest are moot.
Musa had relation with God, he built mosques that still exit in Mali. Read the quote.
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(...) Mansa Musa I ruled West Africa’s Malian Empire in the early 1300s, making his fortune by exploiting his country’s salt and gold production. Many mosques he built as a young man still stand today.
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Location: Western Massachusetts
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How do you compare wealth from medieval times to more modern times? Totally different forms, and head of state wealth is wealth that can't really be sold.
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Old 03-17-2015, 02:54 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Richest Black African of all-time okay, Richest person in the 1300's sure but Richest man of all-time? hell no!
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Old 03-17-2015, 07:22 PM
 
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Richest Black African of all-time okay, Richest person in the 1300's sure but Richest man of all-time? hell no!
Aahhaha, do you have a problem with somebody.
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Old 03-18-2015, 12:37 AM
 
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Aahhaha, do you have a problem with somebody.
No
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Old 03-18-2015, 01:17 AM
 
Location: Canada
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I think what you can buy with your wealth is a key and very real variable when it comes to determining how wealthy you actually are. What wealth is, at the end of the day, is a measure of how much power you wield to accomplish things as measured by what percentage of an economy you can direct to meet those goals. Even if you control a huge amount of human endeavour, if that civilization doesn't have the ability to accomplish many things, you are not as powerful as someone who is wealthy in a civilization with a more diverse economy with more technical expertise, since there's less you can buy. He may have been able to get huge quantities of gold or other natural resources, but unlike, say, Oprah, he couldn't attend a spectacle like the TED conference, Disney World, or the Olympics. Nor could he fly to China in a day, own a car, or purchase medical care to cure him of tuberculosis. This, in very real ways, means he was less wealthy then a modern rich person is.
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