The begging of the persian empire was 1000BCE
The answer is Germany. Starting in the late 19th century forwards
Britain had a relative economic decline as other states such
as the United States and Germany held up. In 1870, Britain's output per head
was the second highest in the world after Australia. By 1914, it was fourth in
the ranking. This was before the World War 1.
During the Victorian Era, the middle class wasn't very large. The middle class consisted of shopkeepers, merchants, clerks, businessmen, bankers, doctors, and etc. Many people in the middle class could make on average 100-5,000
People also referred to the higher class who had commodity’s as the Bourgiuse