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shokenchi on 29 October 2012

if u count land, gheghis khan was the largest land owner in history.



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Pyro as Bill on 29 October 2012
shokenchi said:
if u count land, gheghis khan was the largest land owner in history.


No he wasn't.

Mongol empire was at it's biggest after Genghis Khan's death. Regardless, the max British Empire was bigger than the max Mongol Empire.

British Empire in 1938 was 8 billion acres.

Mongol Empire in 1279 was 6 billion acres (less than the current queen)

That makes King George VI (1938) a bigger landowner/the biggest(?).



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menx64 on 29 October 2012

I thought Alexander the Great should be there somehow... but $400 billions... crazy



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Augen on 29 October 2012
homer said:
Interesting note about Mansa Musa. When he was traveling to I know not where, he brought a caravan of gold and gave out so much gold that the worth of gold in that area plunged dramatically in such a way that it took many many years to recover. He was that rich...


Except....wait for it...the Mongols!



Augen on 29 October 2012
Player2 said:

Less than 100 billion.


For scale http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-3674&y=-5650&z=5



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Mendicate Bias on 30 October 2012

Mansa Musa looks like he's holding an Apple of Eden in that picture... 0_o



                                           

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DanneSandin on 30 October 2012
chapset said:
No wonder mansa musa always does so well in civ 4

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PlaystaionGamer on 30 October 2012

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sethnintendo on 30 October 2012
SecondWar said:
sethnintendo said:

Good to see a Viking in the top 10. Take that England! Your riches will be plundered!

Seeing as he became King of England rather than make it a colony of Normandy he didn't exactly plunder the countries riches. Also in the list Timbuktu isn't a nation its a city and if Gaddafi was that rich, why was he never on the list when he was alive?


Yea, it wasn't totally accurate remark but they have owned England in the past and they chose England's monastaries first when they started plundering.  Remember Danelaw?  England has been decently influenced by Vikings and this is probably how they started getting good at sea power.