Funny though that prior to the discovery of vast silver in the New World, silver was rarer and more valuable than gold.

For starters that amount of gold is relatively smaller to the current value of the world economy and a lot of people wants to reconstitute the Gold Standard.

Not to mention a portion of the total gold "mined" could be missing since people do tend to bury their treasure way back then.

So in actuality, there is less gold peesent.

Dont tell that to my countrymen. They believe that the Marcoses are lending the US gold with 1k USD interest per hour.

Highly likely one of his Companion Generals poisoned him. His father was assasinated too after all.

With regards to being the "Greatest" Conqueror, I rate Genghis a little bit higher than Alexander, who also happened to be a great administrator.

There was a quote, I can't remember where I read it and paraphrasing it "Will Alexander still be considered "Great" if his empire fragmented before he died?"

Sure Alexander was an able conqueror but administering an empire as large as he carved is another matter. It literally fragmented at his death bed.

Also begs the idea if Heraclius is gonna be considered one of the "Greatest" Roman Emperors if he died a year or two before the Rashidun Caliphate undid his victories.

My 1st cousin was stuck in a designated "reserve ship" by his company off the coast of Malaysia.

He was there from Jan 2020 upto Jun 2021. The only reason he was able to go home was because Malaysia sent inspectors to ensure the ship was following international standards and they discovered quite a few sailors who became stuck like my cousin.

He lost quite a lot of potential wages since all he got for compensation was his basic pay and a few allowances.

Imagine spending most of the pandemic in a single ship who did not even travelled. People will go insane.