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Ask most people about leisure activity in the Ancient World and they will probably mention the sport of hunting, Greek athletics, or the cruel contests staged between Roman gladiators and wild animals. It will therefore come as a surprise to many that one of today's most popular games - backgammon - actually has a history going back some five thousand years. Nobody knows for such who was the first person to invent the backgammon game but scholars believe it was devised or developed in the area today occupied by Iran and Iraq.
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The spread of the backgammon game around the world continued after the collapse of the Roman Empire, however it was not until the 1740's that the backgammon rules were first published. The introduction of commercially produced backgammon sets at a price that most people could easily afford, also played a role in making the game available to people all around [url=http://www.orlando-apts.com/nfljerseys/]cheap nfl jerseys[/url] the world.
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