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- History_of_games abstract "The history of games dates to the ancient human past. Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity. Common features of games include uncertainty of outcome, agreed upon rules, competition, separate place and time, elements of fiction, elements of chance, prescribed goals and personal enjoyment.Games capture the ideas and worldviews of their cultures and pass them on to the next generation. Games were important as cultural and social bonding events, as teaching tools and as markers of social status. As pastimes of royalty and the elite, some games became common features of court culture and were also given as gifts. Games such as Senet and the Mesoamerican ball game were often imbued with mythic and ritual religious significance. Games like Gyan chauper and The Mansion of Happiness were used to teach spiritual and ethical lessons while Shatranj and Wéiqí (Go) were seen as a way to develop strategic thinking and mental skill by the political and military elite.In his 1938 book, Homo Ludens, Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued that games were a primary condition of the generation of human cultures. Huizinga saw the playing of games as something that “is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.” Huizinga saw games as a starting point for complex human activities such as language, law, war, philosophy and art.".
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- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Abbasid_Caliphate.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Abd_ar-Rahman_II.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Abu_Bakr_bin_Yahya_al-Suli.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Anderssen.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Agricola_(board_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Air_wargaming.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Akbar.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Al-Biruni.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Al-Mamun.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Alfonso_X_of_Castile.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Alice_chess.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink All_Fours.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Alquerque.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Analects.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Arcade_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Armor_class.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Ashtapada.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Association_football.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Attack_Vector:_Tactical.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Austria.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Austro-Prussian_War.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Avalon_Hill.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Ayyubid_dynasty.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Aztec.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Baccarat_(card_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Backgammon.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Baibars.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Ball.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Ball_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Balochistan.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Basset_(card_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Battleship_(game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bear_games.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Benjamin_Franklin.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bezique.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Blackjack.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Blackmoor.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Board_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Board_wargame.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bobby_Fischer.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bocce.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Boules.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bowling.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Bureaucracy.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Byzantine_Empire.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Caliphate.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Capablanca_chess.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Carcassonne_(board_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Card_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Carmina_Burana.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Carom_billiards.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Carrom.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Cartomancy.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Casino_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Catan.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Catch_the_Hare.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_games.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Category:Leisure_activities.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Cathode-ray_tube_amusement_device.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Celts.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Central_Asia.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chainmail_(game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chaturaji.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chaturanga.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chaupar.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess960.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_opening.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_problem.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_rating_system.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_theory.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_tournament.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chess_with_different_armies.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink China.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_Xiangqi_Association.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_calligraphy.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_dominoes.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chinese_painting.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chuck-a-luck.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Chuiwan.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Circular_chess.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Civilization_(board_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Civilization_(video_game).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Cluedo.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Collectible_card_game.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Colonial_history_of_the_United_States.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Contract_bridge.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Courier_chess.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Court_(royal).
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Cowry.
- History_of_games wikiPageWikiLink Craps.