The History of the Hunger Games

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Seventy four years ago, in 1940, the United States and the entire world was involved in World War II, a war that killed over 73,000,000 people who should have deserved longer lives. Helicopters were invented right around that time as well, maybe a year or two before 1940. From there, the United States and other devices were created, such as microwaves, bikinis, mobile phones, frisbees, velcro, contact lenses, credit cards, video tape recorders, satellites, video games, car seat belts, lava lamp, computer mouse, portable calculators, the internet, car airbags, personal computers, answering machines, YouTube, and the list just goes on and on. Now, seventy years ago, they didn't have personal computer or laptops or the internet for that matter, so the Hunger Games must have developed during the course of the seventy four years.

What do I propose? I truly think when the Hunger Games started, the only thing that has stayed the same during the years was the cornucopia, as Katniss Everdeen (I believe) referred to it as the "classic" cornucopia, thus signifying that it must have been around since the start of the Hunger Games. We can already suspect that the Careers were not created right from the start, but I do believe that they were created somewhat early, presumably before the 25th Hunger Games. I also don't think that sponsoring, mentoring, training, or even the chariot rides were created from the start, but add ons because the Capitol enjoyed watching them so much. I also don't believe that they had landmines under their plates when they first started, they were just told to wait for the gong to boom before they started.

Going by the years, I composed an entire list of the victors, add ons, and anything that happened during the course of the year. I will be separating the years by the year of the Hunger Games, so the First Hunger Games is the year from when the tributes are reaped for that Hunger Games, and ends with the reaping of the Second Hunger Games, etc.. I will not be including any characters involved in the books, so all the victors will just be fan-made and not included in the books. The reason I do this is because there's a lot of information on the timeline for the victors on the main wiki, and some of them, I don't quite agree with so the victors are just all going to be fan-made.

The Inception Era
The Inception Era was an era of healing after the events of the Dark Days and the starting point of the Hunger Games. It takes places during the years 1st through 16th Hunger Games and precedes the Innovative Era.