![]() ![]() By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, gambling or “gaming” returned as a commercial activity, with the rise in horse-betting, lotteries, and establishments built for the sole purpose of gambling. In Great Britain specifically, gambling was first officially legislated around the sixteenth century this made the games of cards, lotteries, dice etc. Over the centuries, different games were invented in many places, and new gambling cultures began across the world. However, this practice of weighing risk versus reward has existed for millennia wall paintings from Pompeii and Red-Attic vases from Greece depict men playing games of dice. In today’s society, you would be hard-pressed to imagine gambling in any other way. If you were to wander down the Las Vegas Strip today, you would be blinded by the neon lights and the fancy water features of the casinos. ( Public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Tavern Interior by Willem Linnig the Elder, 1849
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