Though to be fair, the article claims Bezos is 'the richest man in history'. Not 'the richest man in their cultural sphere in history' or 'the richest man in th

Though to be fair, the article claims Bezos is 'the richest man in history'. Not 'the richest man in their cultural sphere in history' or 'the richest man in their continent in history'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P... Rich as they may be, western europe was still a small fraction of the world's wealth.