Richest People in History

Visual Capitalist has an infographic of the The Richest People in History. It might be useful if you want to print it and hang it on the wall where you can see the whole thing, but it's too big to fit on my computer display. If I shrink it down, the text is too small to be legible. There isn't a whole lot of information there, so I copied it into the spreadsheet you can see above. You can see the spreadsheet on Google Drive here.

I had heard of half of these people, but not the other half. Also, I now understand the phrase 'rich as Crassus'.

Via ZeroHedge