cubsfan6506
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I imagine it would be who ever came up with currency first.
Largest economy in the world in history?
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Hasdrubal Barca
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Ok, so the first empire was .....Neo-Assyrian Empire? but the first largest economy could have been Egypt? but then again the oldest city-metropole in the world is athens...
but then the fact that beiing old doenst prove it was richer then Egypt cities so far back....
but then the fact that beiing old doenst prove it was richer then Egypt cities so far back....
Traitorfish
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Not nearly. Sargon the Great's Akkadian empire pre-dates it by well over one thousand years (23rd century BC, as opposed to 10th century BC).
Cheezy the Wiz
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Or Jericho, or Petra, or Persepolis...I mean, hell, Athens wasn't founded until what, the 9th Century BC? How many thousands of years did cities exist before that? Nineveh was supposed to have been a huge complex, too. And that's only Near-Eastern, I'm sure there were some in India and the East, too.
shashankac655
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China and India had the largest economies for most of the last two millennia.
economic history of India
timeline of India
China
21st century belongs to China (to lesser extent India) because every century except the 19th and 20th belonged to China and India.
General Pilates
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The 19th century BC belonged to the Merchants of Ashur, who had a distinct monopoly over the transport of Copper and tin from Anatolia and had a considerable control over them.
RickFGS
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Portugal, XV and XVI century, the gold reserves alone were enough to buy all of the worlds economies twice at the time. Portuguese navy totaled almost 10,000 ships at the height of power (production capability was almost 1,000 medium to large sized ships per year, the entire Madeira island forest was cleared in only 10 years, and the island was completly covered with large trees), controlling trade and shipping in three oceans, and 5 continents, and yes, we discovered North America and Australia before everyone else. The emperor of Japan though we were aliens when we landed in Tanegashima island (today the home of the Japanese space program, strange? not at all 
) and offered immediately a stretch of land to build a large palace for the "european most advanced civilization" to trade and teach the ways of the world to locals.
A single portuguese warship, or Nau could wipe out 10 to 30 ships before beeing sunk. In land wars, a fully equiped portuguese company of 1,000 soldiers, plus supporting coastal war ships could hold and defeat Otoman/Indian and Indonesian armies of 50,000 men and >1,000 ships.
) and offered immediately a stretch of land to build a large palace for the "european most advanced civilization" to trade and teach the ways of the world to locals.A single portuguese warship, or Nau could wipe out 10 to 30 ships before beeing sunk. In land wars, a fully equiped portuguese company of 1,000 soldiers, plus supporting coastal war ships could hold and defeat Otoman/Indian and Indonesian armies of 50,000 men and >1,000 ships.
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Since this seems to be the way of this thread, the King of Tyrconnel (a distinctly secondary power to Tyrone) was also the King of Fish.
Fish, as I have found is $2.00 a pound. There are trillions of fish in the sea. Assuming they all average out to 1 pound each, that's assets amounting to at least 4 trillion dollars.
Fish, as I have found is $2.00 a pound. There are trillions of fish in the sea. Assuming they all average out to 1 pound each, that's assets amounting to at least 4 trillion dollars.
RickFGS
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At least, we didn´t spent our entire resources into a behemoth battleship (bismark something) that could be sunk by a biplane torpedo because it coulnd´t turn very well
Hu..and did you ever win a war you were win by the way?
I'm sorry but the British empire by far was the worlds greatest economic force, it literally transformed entire hemispheres and laid the foundations for todays' global economy, after WWII the US took the helm, but for those who say Germany took over the UK in terms of manufacturing and chemical development in the late 19th century miss the point, the UK, and in particular London has been the epicenter of world financial trade for the last 200 years.
Domen
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China was probably on top during most of Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Marla_Singer
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I agree about the Middle Age, I'm less sure about the Ancient times. The Roman Empire was really powerful and economically very well-organized.
I'd say China dominated from the fall of the Roman Empire to the conquest of the Americas by Spain. Then Spain took the leadership considering the fantastic wealth they've brought from the new continent.
Afterwards, I'd say France briefly took the leadership again during the 17th/18th century... then Britain. I indeed believe Germany took the leadership briefly in the early 20th century and then it's been the US. China will most likely surpass the US again during this century.
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Roughly all of them. By commanding the fishes to overturn the vessels.
Traitorfish
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Aquaman can't actually do that anymore.
I'll have to check if they're the same word in old gaelic.
Spanish silver ended up enriching China considerably.
