🎮Games of chance throughout history

Betting and games of chance have been a common pastime for thousands of years. The earliest historical record of a giveaway system is the ‘drawing of lots’ determined in ancient texts, used to define ownership or confer rights to the winning party. Other giveaways of historical note date from 205 to 187 BC from the Chinese Han Dynasty. The earliest known European giveaway type games date from the Roman Empire, followed by King Francis I who used games of chance in France to fund his military campaigns in Italy. King James I established a precedent for British games of chance in 1612 by granting a licence to the Virginia Company to raise money for settler establishment in the colony at Jamestown, Virginia. Since then, giveaways have been used to raise funds for various public infrastructure and works projects, war and educational establishments.