A player may count their stones to plot the game. Players begin by placing a certain number of seeds, prescribed for the particular game, in each of the pits on the game board. Most mancala games share a common general gameplay. The word mancala ( Arabic: مِنْقَلَة, romanized: minqalah) is a tool noun derived from an Arabic root naqala ( ن-ق-ل) meaning "to move". This distribution has been linked to migration routes, which may go back several hundred years. Recent studies of mancala rules have given insight into the distribution of mancala. Archeologists may have found evidence of the game Mancala played in Nashville, Tennessee at the Hermitage Plantation. The game was played by enslaved Africans to foster community and develop social skills. The game was brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Historians may have found evidence of Mancala in slave communities of the Americas. It is played to this day in Cape Verdean communities in New England. It is played on the Islands and was brought to the United States by Cape Verdean immigrants. In Cape Verde, mancala is known as "ouril". In the United States a traditional mancala game called Warra was still played in Louisiana in the early 20th century, and a commercial version called Kalah became popular in the 1940s. In western Europe, it never caught on but was documented by Oxford University orientalist Thomas Hyde. Two mancala tables from the early 18th century are to be found in Weikersheim Castle in southern Germany. In Estonia, it was once very popular (see " Bohnenspiel"), and likewise in Bosnia (where it is called Ban-Ban and still played today), Serbia, and Greece ("Mandoli", Cyclades). The games have also existed in Eastern Europe. The game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Geʽez text Mysteries of Heaven and Earth, where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Geʽez to refer to both Gebet'a (mancala) and Sant'araz (modern sent'erazh, Ethiopian chess). Among other early evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite areas in Matara (in Eritrea) and Yeha (in Ethiopia), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th centuries AD. Evidence of the game has also been uncovered in Kenya, as well as Israel in the city of Gedera in an excavated Roman bathhouse where pottery boards and rock cuts were unearthed dating back to between the 2nd and 3rd century AD. The oldest discovered Mancala boards are in 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan in the floor of a Neolithic dwelling as early as ~5,870 BC. mancala) boards in the base of an Aksumite stele, Axum, Ethiopia A 10th century ivory board from Muslim Spain History Pit marks presumed to be ancient Gebeta (i.e. It is among the oldest known games to still be widely played today. Versions of the game date back past the 3rd century and evidence suggests the game existed in Ancient Egypt. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces. Mancala ( Arabic: منقلة manqalah) refers to a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. Not to be confused with Mandala or Lake Manzala.
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