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What country started the tradition of exchanging gifts?

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Italy is the accepted correct answer.

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I am not sure where "anonymous" got his information, but Italy is *not* the "accepted correct" answer. Gift-giving traditions centered around the Winter Solstice have been around since pre-Christian times. Yes, one of those traditions came out of Rome and the Saturnalia (which is in modern Italy), but it is not the first, nor the most direct, influence on modern gift-giving. German and Victorian British traditions; it is directly from those influences that modern Christmas got its tradition.

The netherlands

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i agree, Italy is the correct answer, i looked it up in other resources.

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