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The Lottery

The start of the lottery was during the conquest of Rome, When the romans would conquer their enemys; men where often left standing. Julius Caesar the wise and powerful ruler of Rome at the time was a conquer of many, so many territories that slaves were abundant and overpopulated. With an overpopulation he had to develop a plan; to cap the population of all slaves.

The end to Roman hunger

The Roman people where going through a depression and a famine, with a high population coming in from conquered territory slaves began to consume as much as the population of Rome itself, they needed to devise a plan to stop the over population of slaves to proceed with prosperity of the citizens of Rome. The plan was cut down on slaves but increase on economic development and expendable foods, so being the wise and powerful leader of Rome he thought that its was fair to give all slaves a fare chance to live in and to build with their lives.

The ticket to Success

Tickets where small pieces of cut up sugar cane that were flattened in order to make small hard carvable writing strips. After being carved with symbols and letters or numbers they where finished and handed out to the slaves.

The slaughter of the cow

After being handed out they where drawn by legionaries and where put into categories: First category- put to death, the men and women chosen within this category where either hanged, decapitated or would be hunted as they were sent of into the jungle. Children would not face this punishment.

Second category- Slaves until death, the ones chosen in this category would be slaves until they had fatal injuries or died, of course they would bath, sleep under a roof and be feed through the period of slavery

Third category- Freedom, the ones chosen in this category would be marked with the symbol of Caesar and set free, the symbol of Caesar was meant to keep those who have been set free out of incarceration. The Lottery was rigged mainly for children and those younger than nineteen could as well become citizens of Rome, but if male would have to serve a term in the military and if female would have to serve in the palace as servant for four year term

The after effect

After the wars the population had a steady cap flow of people that had become slaves were killed or had been set free and did service for the army and in the palace, Caesar was still anxious to see what the lottery could become. After a short period of time he put the lottery in several services that would participate, The military men would get time off and servants would receive sums of money Etc...

Fight of the titans

Caesar noticed an increase of violence during the time of the lottery, he noticed that besides the slave class their was an increase of crime in the city. After a while Caesar's city guard had found bodies of those who have won and those that attempted to take out the winners. Caesar decided that a price need to be put on these tickets to stop city scum and from getting their hands on these "power tickets" as they where called.