Why did the Capitol start the Hunger Games?

Traditions and culture tend to change significantly over the course time, and it's been nearly a century since the games were founded. Though the book refers to several different Hunger Games, we are not told very much more about them than how a certain victor survived. read more

It wasn't that the Hunger Games would have spurred a rebellion; a rebellion spurred the Hunger Games. Seventy-four years before Katniss' first Hunger Games, each of the 13 Districts rebelled against the Capitol before being defeated by the Capitol. read more