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When people say that Mansa Musa was the richest person in history, what exactly does that mean? How do you even compare wealth across such vast temporal, legal, and technological distances? Did he really live in more luxury than, say, Bezos?

by /u/TheSolarPrincess in /r/AskHistorians

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