Both Uses of
Cleopatra
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Outliers
- Rockefeller Jr. Sam Walton John Jacob Astor 153.6 151.7 England Monarchy 15 16 142.9 141.4 England United States House of Tudor Standard Oil 17 18 128.0 115.0 United States Germany Wal-Mart American Fur Company Monarchy First Bank of the United States Ptolemaic Inheritance Rensselaerswyck Estate 19 20 Odo of Bayeux 110.2 Stephen Girard 99.5 England France Cleopatra 95.8 Ancient Egypt Stephen Van Rensselaer III 88.8 United States No. Name Wealth in Billions (USD) Origin C o m p a n y or Source of Wealth Richard B. Mellon 86.3 United States Gulf Oil Alexander 84.7 Turney Stewart William Backhouse Astor Jr. Don Simon Iturbi Patifio Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Frederick Weyerhaeuser Moses Taylor Vin†
Chpt 2
- Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history every since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from a single generation in a single country.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt; beautiful and charismatic queen; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)