Rags To Riches - Classic Times

Classic Times

• Fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Aladdin
• Genghis Khan who was homeless with just his mother and his siblings went on to create the largest land empire in history.
• The Roman Emperor Diocletian, born in poverty and whose father was a former slave (by some sources, the emperor himself was born in slavery) .
• The Arthurian story of Sir Gareth, who rises from a lowly kitchen boy to a prominent Knight of the Round Table.
• Pope Leo III was of commoner origin and attained the high position in spite of violent opposition from the nobility, who considered the papacy as their preserve.
• Chandragupta Maurya of India, who from a humble beginning founded the Maurya Empire
• Andrew Carnegie was born in a one-room cottage in Scotland to weavers, and became one of the richest men ever by creating a steel empire in the United States