That brings me on to an eternally fascinating question: who was the wealthiest human of all time?
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I bring this up because it reveals how wildly open to interpretation historicising wealth can be.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has just been overtaken by Elon Musk in the wealth list (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) Using wages as the economic measure produced a startlingly different result – Dickens’ box-office windfall wasn’t equivalent to £3m in our money, it was £30m! Proper speedboat dosh, that. But they used the value of goods in 1867 as their economic litmus test – apparently, he earned enough to buy 3,000 horses, which, having never bought a horse, strikes me as a lot of horses.īut touring America was his job, so surely the better measure is to compare it with average personal income for the era? After all, people were buying $2 tickets to see him, paid out of their wages, and they weren’t showing up to the box office looking to swap a horse for a front-row seat. You can’t buy a speedboat on £45,000 at best, you’re basically looking at a fancy pedalo with some really nice cushions.īut what did it mean to Dickens in 1867? Previous biographers have converted it into £3m.
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) would have been a multi-millionaire in today’s money (Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty)ĭespite decades of inflation, £45,000 is still nothing to be sniffed at – it now gets you a shiny BMW 5 Series (please feel free to donate to my crowdfunder, so I can afford one) – but it’s nothing like a 21st-century fortune. He raked in £45,000, but was that a lot? It doesn’t sound it. To the far west, to Hellas, small Greek kingdoms fight for the control of Greece and then to extend their armies all the way into India.who will forge the greatest empire?.In my book Dead Famous, about the history of celebrity, I tried to work out the modern value of Charles Dickens’s box-office takings during his second American tour in 1867. To the north the Sakae tribes will invade from the Steppes, swiftly marching into Persian land. The Pandyans, coming from the far east of India, will soon sweep across the west and claim Asia as hers. But thats all soon about to change, he has plans do crush the Medes, siege Babylonia and destroy the Lydians.Persia is ready for to sprout from its seed, starting a new period in history.But this won't be easy as many kingdoms and empires await him and his armies. In Aryanam, King Cyrus II has become king of the Persians, has united the seperate kingdoms, but still remains under rule of the Medes. In the region of Parsa, a small kingdom is soon going to rise to become an empire.perhaps the greatest empire the world will ever see. One nation is about to change the fate of the world forever. Kingdoms and empires fight for total domination to rule the world.
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Chaldeans, their unirivaled, fabously rich city of Babylon gains wealth, expanding their territories dominating all of Mesopotamia. Egyptians, their long langsting empire, gains wealth in their regions stretching from Syria to the north, and Ethiopia to the south.
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The Lydians, their rich empire, dominating almost all of Asia Minor and soon to expand even further. The Medes, their mighty empire, expanding their frontires from the far east all the way to Asia Minor. The year is 559B.C, the four greatest empires divide the known world.
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Covering the rise to power of the Hakha-manishiya Dynasty in Ancient Persia, this mod aspires to present a setting that breathes a more genuinely Eastern quality than the original, that largely focuses on Rome.