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Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?
Season 3 · Episode 8

Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?

Tides of History · Audible / Patrick Wyman

May 16, 201953m 9s

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Show Notes

At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in that transition was Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, maybe the richest man who ever lived.

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