Dynamics Of White Privilege Sports

By Christa Jarvis


Despite the official negative attitude of Christian church in physical education authorities had not only to encourage the training of chivalry, the former main military force in Western Europe, but also a blind eye to people's games and competitions - in particular in German states and in Ireland, where the tradition is preserved games until the second half of XII century. Even more tolerant attitude towards it was popular with the entertainment of people in regions where the reigning orthodoxy (white privilege sports).

Later, during the period of Roman rule over Greece, to major sporting events Add Established Octavian Actia and Capitoline games instituted by Domitian, but in Roman period in whole sport ceased to be massive. Once in Europe to replace paganism Christianity came, sport declined. Church doctrine holds exercises for the development of body and soul corrupting alienates man from God.

Cave paintings found in Japan, depicted in style of sumo bouts, apparently associated with agricultural religious rituals. There are objects and structures, saying that in China there activities that fit the modern definition sport, already for 4000 years BC. Apparently, the gym has been a popular sport ancient China. In 1st millennium BC. E. Among the common people was popular - a team ball game, in which varied up to 70 kinds of bumps and up to 10 types of violations of rules.

The Sumerian civilization has left a number of archaeologists artifacts testifying to popularity of struggle ancient Mesopotamia, including stone reliefs of about five thousand years ago, and a bronze statue of Khafaji depicting wrestlers and dating from around the year 2600 BC. E. To this period belong the picturesque images of wrestlers ancient Egyptian tombs of Beni Hassan, shows that already 4.5 thousand years ago in struggle used by most modern seizures.

Images of this age may indicate that in wrestling participated Libyans and Nubians, as well as the presence of refereeing. Older images can also be interpreted as evidence of foot race in which, perhaps, even the rulers were chosen. Ancient Persia there was a horse game resembling polo. This game, like chess, shooting, javelin, wrestling and running boys enrolled in special foster homes at the court.

In Central America, was developed Mesoamerican ballgame, including the people of Olmec - already in XIV century. BC. E .. There were different types of games, which allowed the ball hitting the different parts of body or stick found playgrounds with fortified at different ends at high altitude rings indicate the possible existence of similarity of modern basketball.

And still later, in middle of second millennium AD, like the ban on carrying weapons common people has led to emergence of martial arts in Japan, other than from those developed on the continent. In era of Mongol domination (Yuan Dynasty) spread in China have received and other sport-related military training - horse riding, archery, various kinds of struggles. Japanese samurai who even started to play with guns fighting naked peasants, in turn, have developed a system of fighting without weapons, dubbed "jujitsu".

With the weakening of feudal oppression in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance later formed similar for different countries folksy physical culture, including running, jumping, throwing weights and fight. Already in XIII century the treadmills and organized production begins skates, and in XIV century, there are descriptions of variety of ball games - tennis, fives, football (in England and in Italy, where the game was called bowling).




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