History

Question 1

What words does the term “gambling” derive itself from?

Answer 1

Game Play, goes back 10’s of thousands of years

Question 2

Which 2 ancient cultures did not have any board games?

Answer 2

• Inuit or Aborigines. They didnt have board games.

Question 3

Why would a culture play games of chance rather than games of skill?

Answer 3

• Cultures with greater situational uncertainties (greater conflict/warfare, more variable weather, hunter/gatherer rather than agriculture) were more likely to play games of chance
• Playing games of chance may give one favour with the gods of chance

Question 4

Which culture had more gambling than any other culture in the world?

Answer 4

North American Natives

Question 5

What are the oldest class of games known in all cultures?

Answer 5

Physical Games - Games of physical skill

- first time anyone hunted, fished, or wrestled for the fun of it rather than survival.

Question 6

Where did the term “ throwing the bones” come from? What era were these randomizing agents from?

Answer 6

Astragali are bones that have 4 distinctive sides they can land on when thrown. It is nearly impossible to predict which it will land on.
- started appearing around 8500BCE in human graves and kenotaphs around the world

Question 7

What is the oldest board game in the world?

Answer 7

Mancala - Played in Africa and the Middle East

Question 8

What civilization is the “Royal Game of Ur” from?

Answer 8

• Ur is a Sumerian city, one of the oldest civilizations

- location of Ur, southern Iraq