Week2-HistoryOfGames
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HISTORY OF Solutions to boredom across the ages GAMES Bryce Howitson & Homer Rutledge
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3500 BCESENETEgyptian game approximately 1000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza. It’s so old we’ve forgotten how to play it!
2600 BCEROYAL GAME OF URThe oldest documented game that’s still played and a possible precursor of Mancala
2000 BCEWEI-QI (GO)As in “Take your turn already”! It’s played by an estimated 27million people today
600 ADCARD GAMESCards are used for games of strategy and chance before some enterprising architect envisions a building material
THE FUTURE OFGAMESA game layer on top of the world