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#250 Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)

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In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean. And Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. A German banker Named Jacob Fuger. Became the richest man in history.

Maybe you've heard of them. But usually His name gets blank stares. His influence rests on what he did. For Austria's Hasburg family dynasty.

When Foger made his first loan to the Hasburgs They didn't even have Vienna. By the time he finished They had half the known world. While they got the titles

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