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Mansa Musa was one of the most wealthy leaders in all the world with over 600 billion dollars in gold, with great power over all his citizens, and to extend this he went on his hajj to show people how rich and powerful he was. Mansa Musa did not go on his hajj just for religious reasons he also went on the hajj to show the people of Africa how wealthy and powerful he was. One of the documents that show that why he didn't just go for religious reasons is document A, where it shows all the…

Who used to dominate the business world of America? The men are called the titans and they had many traits that made them so great. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John B. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan were four of them. The Titans shared many traits, three of which were being future thinkers, being strategic thinkers, and being risk takers and these traits helped them build America into what it is today. To succeed, the titans had to be strategic. Cornelius Vanderbilt, demonstrating this…

D. Rockefeller looked at it as an opportunity to be successful and decided to take full advantage of the situation. The Standard Oil Trust was able to become so cost-effective because they got the most out of the opportunities that was happening around them, as well as created opportunities for themselves. In September of 1873, the stock market crashed and triggered a recession, and Standard Oil had attained roughly 80 percent of the refining capacity in Cleveland. And by 1878 Rockefeller…

Who: This article is about Carl Scheele a 1700’s chemist. Scheele was born into a very wealthy family and his father was a very smart man. Scheele learned a lot from his father and his friends that would come to teach young Carl. Scheele became a pharmacist which lead him into working with different chemicals. He founded many different acids as well as barium and molybdenum. Scheele also created a green coloring mixture in which is now famous as Scheele’s Green. What: This article is trying to…

To begin, John Davidson Rockefeller’s oppositions such as Vanderbilt, and Tom Scott continuously try to make more money off of Rockefeller and sabotage his well planned industry, however Rockefeller always makes a decision that will tear down the opposition to keep his industry running. Through the study of John D. Rockefeller, he should be considered a captain of industry. He has justified his wealth many times as he has never cut his workers wages, he has also donated to charity very often,…

Who was John D. Rockefeller? John Davison Rockefeller was a very intelligent businessman. He started learning at a young age about business. He was also generous. John D. Rockefeller donated millions of dollars of his own money to charities. He also helped fund for universities and many more things. John D. Rockefeller was one of the most generous and intelligent businessman in the United States. John D. Rockefeller was born in the town of Richford, New York. Since he was a kid, his father,…

John D. Rockefeller is the poster child for the American dream. He worked himself from the bottom of the monetary food chain to the top. Rockefeller believed in hard and honest work and hated when anything went to waste. This is why when he saw oil being drilled and wasted through inefficiency, he saw an opportunity. Rockefeller then started his own company and the rest is history. He became one of the first multimillionaires in the United States of America through his business and talent.…

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a disrespectful, ugly, genius shipping and railroad tycoon whose parents were farmers and he grew up with no education. “In New York, 1871 Vanderbilt was in the Grand Central Depot, the terminal for New York Central Railroad was constructed with features like elevated platforms , a glass balloon roof spanning all the tracks and boarding areas only accessible to passengers”. He made railroad much better than it was by making it cheaper and efficient. He mastered…

John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in the world in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. He is known for his very successful oil industry which we know as Standard Oil today. He was a very influential person back in his time and he still is today. Now the question is, was John Rockefeller a robber baron or a captain of industry? John Rockefeller was born on July 8th, 1839 in Richford, New York. His mother was a religious and disciplined woman and his father was a ¨pitchman¨. As a…