Lecture 2: When did sport begin?

Question 1

sport in dictionary

Answer 1

sport begins before culture

-history begins when we start writing things down

Question 2

Pok a tok

Answer 2

played by mayans, ball game with hips and no hands
-team that loses ball game gets killed by wining team as sacrifice to gods
-training and proxy for war, based on religion
arena is central to city and used as marker for status

Question 3

olympics

Answer 3

-same as mesoamerican ball game = religious ceremony
776BC were it began to go every 4 years
-started with stadion then added pankration

Question 4

cult of zeus
cult of hera
pre-modern olympics

Answer 4

men, women
-non standardized
tainted with paganism

Question 5

feudalism

Answer 5

exchange of land/nobility for military service

provide trained soldiers (peasants)

Question 6

archery law 1252

Answer 6

all men must be trained in archery

Question 7

mob football

Answer 7

villages playing eachother
during lent around easter
usually ended in riots because there were no rules
-any means other than murder 
la soule : french version