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History of sports and games

Sports is an activity pertaining to physical extraction and skill in which an

individual or team competes against one another or others for recreation. sports
contains all forms of competitive physical activity or games, through simple or organized
History of sports and games
participation, at least in part to use, maintain or enhance physical activity and abilities while
furnishing enjoyment to participants and in some cases entertainment for the viewers. Sports can

bring an optimistic effect on one's physical health. The history of sports back to the ancient world.

The physical workout that developed into sports had early links with sermon, welfare, and
entertainment. It's taken back 3000 years when it's about the history of sports. In

advent, sports often involved the practice of war or training as a hunter. This
clarifies why so many early games involved throwing the rocks, spears, and stake, and spearing
on one with opponents. As far back as the advent of sports, it was connected to the military
parade. For example, the competition was used as a means to deduce whether a person was fit
and useful for service. Team sports we're used to training the people working together and also

prove the capability to fight in the army. Although it's impossible to know for sure, it is
considered that wrestling was the first sport ever played. Sports that include human transport and
running would also have been include among the first sports played. Sports that involve throwing,
kicking, throwing a ball like an object. There are so many sports that have developed as
competition from means of early transportation, likes horse riding and canoeing, and from
military activity such as archery. In 760 BC first Olympic Games were held. There is

only one game and it was a footrace. Later games encompassed that were wrestling,
boxing, equestrian, discus, javelin, and jumping. From around the same period, the only game

mentioned in the Bible is said to be wrestling. The most popular sports that are played around
the world today is soccer, has its origin from China .there is a piece of evidence that military
forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC played a game, originally named "Tsu Chu", which
actually means kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur into a small hole. Like football, no hand
was allowed in that game, most of the historian agreed that some types of ball game has been
played for at least over 3000 years. The origins of the game can be seen in China, Japan, Egypt
Greece before our modern game take a new look in England. Another popular form of sports

called cricket was played at first in 1844. Then in 1867 the first Australian cricket team tour in
England. Then in 1877 on 15 march first test cricket match had been played between
Australia and England. Today we are watching Archery which is playing using so many
different types of equipment as well as strategies of shooting and competing with other archers.
It's nearly 2800 BC when the first composite bow was invented by the Egyptians. It's basically

made of wood, tipped, and animal horn and held t gather with animal sinew and glue Although,
it resembles a "c" shape and would have required 2 people to string it. The browsing was made
of "catgut” which means sheep intestine. the arrow used to be very light, could be shot 400 yards
using the composite bow and would easily penetrate the armor of the time period .the Egyptian
used archer on the back of the light charity who were highly trained and skilled and could easily
outflank an enemy army with devastating effects. These are the some of the brief histories of
sports from were its to popular from year after year.