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Monday, September 8th 2008 |
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Trying to put an exact date to the origin of gambling is a nigh-impossible task. The first recorded account of gambling is Chinese and is approximately 4,300 years old. Needless to say, gambling has been around from nearly the dawn of the species. Every recorded civilization has had some documented form of gambling, and most of the games that we play today are in some way taken from the games of the past. Playing cards are said to have been invented by the French in 1387, with the first deck being printed in 1440 by the father of the printing press, Johann Gutenberg.
One civilization which embraced gambling was the Roman Empire, which has documented gambling in a variety of sources. At a certain point in the history of the Roman Empire, it was decreed law that every child was taught how to gamble and throw dice.
Many historical figures, as a matter of fact, were gamblers. Napoleon Bonaparte was a frequent player of vingt-et-un, also known as blackjack. Famous novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky was a well-known, pathological gambler. Even today, his face graces the front of the Russian lottery ticket. John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, was such a hardened gambler that he would not leave the table, instead asking his servants to bring him “some meat between two slices of bread,” thus inventing the sandwich, perhaps one of the most important inventions ever to be created during gambling.
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