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The History of Card Playing

Playing cards are known for their variousFrom Egypt,the deck of cards moved farther
games of skill and chance including poker,West,  into  Europe.
blackjack, solitaire, bridge, and many other
games. Playing cards are used in gambling,In the 13th century, The French invented the
magic, solitary games, card houses, and otherred and black deck with simple symbols that
various forms of entertainment. A deck ofbecame the basis for the current common deck
cards can be found everywhere, in dollarof  cards.
stores, in grocery stores, on the Internet,
etc. Because playing cards are taken forEarly cards had no Queens. This reflected the
granted, few people know the history of thefact that there were no women in the Royal
cards  that  they  play  with.courts. Even today, the French deck of cards
have  no  Queens.
Historians believe that playing cards were
invented first by the Persians. From there,The games of skill and chance that could be
They  moved  East to China and West to Egypt.played with a deck of cards bred the use of
the playing cards as a gambling tool and
The Chinese were the fist to invent the suit,gambling quickly became a favorite pastime
Coins. This is a recurring suit throughoutamong card players. So much of a favorite
history. It is known ad both Coins andpastime that in the 14th century, the church
Diamonds  today.began to try to limit the sale of playing
cards due to the fact that people began
Egypt was where the four suits concept wasspending more time and money gambling than
first invented. These four suits were calledgoing to and giving to the church. The church
Swords, Sticks, Cups, and Coins. These suitswon out on their battle and the playing cards
are  still  used  in  the 78 card Tarot deck.were banned throughout most of Europe.



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