subject: The History of Gambling [print this page] Historians prove that the early Greeks were also fond of games of chance but these were banned later on. The legend says that the Greeks did not posses the same level of self control as the Romans so boundaries needed to be set.
Many evidence of rudimentary gambling such as dice were also found in China around 2,300 BC and earlier. In fact, it was China that is the origin of the modern card games we play today. Truth be said, the Koreans created the first models of playing cards but the Chinese perfected them using paper. Because at the time playing cards had to be made manually and individually, and only artistic craftsmen could make them, only the rich had access to them, which made them so desirable amongst common people.
Mesopotamia, Ancient Persia, Egypt and India were also a cradle for games of chance and it is said that around these areas is where backgammon draws its origins from. Initially, the act of throwing dice was closely related to the art of divination, or telling the future with signs from pebbles, runes bones and stones. Later on this became your common game of luck that involves throwing dice.
