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You know already much a lot about gambling and now we offer you to familiarize with the history of the oldest casino games and the way they were before the introduction of online slots and Internet card games. Gambling is probably one of the oldest amusements that has been popular with people from different cultures, and historical periods. It is believed that gambling was known from the beginning of humanity. Three mythical gods Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon had to throw the dice in order to divide the Universe into three parts: sea, heaven, and hell.

Many archeological evidences say that gambling was known among cavemen. The scientists found the dice made of bones which dates back 40,000 years. Moreover, some cave paintings also contain men throwing the dice and playing other gambling games. In general, dice are believed to be the oldest gaming tools which are used even now in classic casino games.

The game with dice or craps was created by Chinese in 2300 B.C. which then was brought to Greece. It is also known that gambling was not legal at those times, despite the fact people used to play the dice. The ivory dice dating back around 1500 B.C. were found in the area of Thebes. Dice were quite popular in the Roman Empire where even children had to study to play using the small playing cubes.

Nonetheless, in the 14th century officially gambling was forbidden by King Henry VIII who was mad about the fact that the soldiers used to waste time playing.

Native Americans believed that gambling was invented by God and that's why they never considered gambling as wrongdoing. They produced dice of plum stones and marked them in black and white. Americans were probably the first to throw dice to forecast the future.

First official lottery was introduced in 1793 in Washington. Back then, during the Revolutionary War lotteries became the excellent method to accomplish the finance improvements and soon all the US states started to provide lotteries. In the 1830's there were 420 lotteries in the United States.

Card games became popular in the New World and were only played at the Mississippi riverboats. Poker games were the most widespread, however elite also preferred to play blackjack. Some of the river venues were legal and some of them were not. Staring from then the players always tried to cheat and when the tricksters were spotted they were punished. However, more and more techniques and ways to manipulate playing cards occurred.

After the Civil War ended all the lotteries were forbidden and the following step was to prohibit any kind of gambling. And starting from the 1890's all gambling activities were illegal in the USA and they went underground. But, in 1931 the state of Nevada legalized different gambling games and a number of gambling venues emerged. It was the start of the fast development of gambling industry all around the globe. With the modern technologies you can easily play real money and free slots, roulette, blackjack, craps, bingo and other games on the Internet. Today the gambling legislations vary from country to country, but still this fact does not prevent the development of online and offline gambling industry.