Was Petteia the first of it's kind? The ancient roots of the European board game family tree?

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The grid-of-squares game board concept is really not as old as one might think. Before "year zero" most board games were linear race games. The race tracks were folded in a zig-zag fashion, but still linear.

Petteia was a playing field that simulated movement in all of the cardinal directions. In fact the game board was referred to as the "polis" - the city - where the activity took place as from the throne of an overlord.

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