Net Worth: $4.6 Trillion

About Augustus Caesar

Augustus Caesar was a politician, and entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $4.6 Trillion. Augustus Caesar was the founder of The Roman Empire and was its first emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and very wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. Caesar amassed his great fortune by politically influencing militaries in his favour in order to gain his control, He also had seniority over the fact that he came from wealth however it did not entirely help him reach his goal in creating the Roman Empire but it did affect some tremendously as wealth played a huge factor. Augustus having great ideas, and a good political idea on gaining the right control lead him by law to hold a collection of powers for life by the senate having also supreme military command over its peoples of that time of his existence. It took several years for Augustus to develop the framework within which a formally republican state could be led under his sole rule. He rejected monarchical titles, and instead called himself Princeps Civitatis which mean “Citizen of the State”. According to Wikipedia Augustus was placed in the List of wealthiest historical figures ranked amongst the richest people that have ever lived. His $4.6 Trillion dollars represents countries wealths and if not more than most countries GDP. Not only was Augustus Caesar in charge of an empire so powerful that accounted for 25% to 30% of the world’s economic output, but according to Stanford history professor Ian Morris, Augustus at one point held personal wealth equivalent to one-fifth of his empire’s total economic output. That fortune he had amassed would be the equivalent of about $4.6 trillion in 2014 dollars. “For a while,” Morris adds, Augustus “personally owned all of Egypt.” That’s hard to top.