299: hazard Oct 3, 2015

After the Crusades, Europeans brought back many things, including medicines, weapons, numerals, and also 'hazard'. This term evolved from the Arabic, 'az-zahr' which means ‘chance, luck,’ which comes from the Persian zār or Turkish, which means 'dice'. In Western Europe the term eventually gained the connotation of danger because the games using dice were associated with gambling and con artists.