The rich history of getting rich

People’s desire to gain fast earnings and become rich overnight is definitely not a feature of the modern man only. Looking back in history, for as long as we can find proper traces at least, it seems that gambling has its roots well established in ancient civilizations.

The earliest times when a form of gambling was recorded was around 2300 in China, where it seems that people were using tiles and dice. Dice was also discovered in Mesopotamia and Egypt around the same time. Then there’s...