Gambling Control – The History Behind It

June 13th, 2008

That gambling itself were not considered an evil could be seen from a fact that in 960 Bishop W. Cambrian invented a church version of “game of dice”. His goal was not to root the games but turn them into something good and useful. Law’s controlling gambling had very close ties to the society structure and people’s belonging to the certain classes. During this long period most of the gambling was represented by variations of “dice” games. Card games didn’t become popular until about 1350. Interesting thing is that all bans and prohibitions were directed against the sins associated with games and not so much the games themselves.