Once a time gambling was centered around a large social event. Gambling house were made temporarily in places where there was a lot of crowd. But later on it became very popular with the people and occasionally gambling was organized. At that moment it starts to expand massively and settles well. Then it is also get legalized. And whenever gambling is conducted over the internet, it creates a world wide frenzy. Nowadays, people are gambling comfortably from their home.
History of gambling goes back to the ancient times.
Even in religious books there is so much references of the gambling - Hindu and chinese are very fond of gambling and they are good in it too.
For me I think there are different history of gambling which depends on era and region.
When you look at the asia history, you will see that it's quest different from the European gambling history and that of Egypt which is africa.
Difference regions with different history but looking at era and the type of gambling can make it different.
anything from ancient Egypt is really old. if they have relics from that era, they really are in the forefront of the civilization which would led you to think what sort of games do they have besides the unusual dice.
Chinese also have the long history, the country had been around for thousands of years and invented unique devices, they've come up unique games only known to be their identity like the Mahjong or the Chinese checker.