The first lottery has appeared 3, 000 years ago in China. The rules of the lottery different from today, they are in the book "I Ching". The most interesting thing. What the money collected at this game, was built the famous Great Wall of China. In 1476 in Genoa, Benedetto Gentile offered lottery method to select new members of the City Council. There were 90 applications filed. Benedetto suggested that all of them numbered, and then people, whose numbers have fallen members of the board.
