Gambling has been a part of human history for centuries. Gambling activities date as far back as 2000 BC in ancient China and India. Every civilization has shown records of some of gambling or the other. But despite the ancient history of gambling, land based casinos have been in existence for only less than 500 years. The first land based casinos are believed to have existed in Italy. They were gambling clubs that were came up around the 17th century. These were private clubs that were owned and organized by wealthy aristocratic Italians. Continue