Kinesiology 3362F/G Lecture 1: Ancient Olympics - Origins
24 Sep 2018
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Ancient greece, covers 1200 bce to 600 bce. 776 bce is the rst recorded olympics: unlike rome, greece was made up of a bunch of city states, they were technically independent not banded together like rome. 3600-1900 bce, sumerian/mesopotamian: a lot of wrestling. 3100 - 525 bce, egyptian: boxing wrestling, ball games. 2600 -1100 bce, minion (pre-greek: bull leaping. 800 - 700bce - monotheistic judaism taking form. Fun fact: there are hieroglyphics which depict a famous pharaoh running, it has been found that they would have to show that they were still physically capable of ruling after a certain age. Map of greece: people were coming from as far away as spain to compete in the games, the map shows where some greeks settled everywhere through. Europe: the red shows where the greeks were located around the. Heracles (dactyl - another type of super human, lower than a god: heracles and his four brothers compete in a footrace for.
