ANCIENT
SPORTS
Since ancient times humans practiced sports.Sports were necessary to keep
the armies in perfect health and in other cases to entertain the population as
the tournaments between knights, the game of the ball in America or the recently football. In this text we will learn about some sports across the time.
The Aztecs were one of the most important cultures in America. They created wonderful buildings and discovered amazing things did their culture huge. But nothing of this
could be possible without body development. When they weren’t at war, the played
the game of the ball. An ancient game where the losers were offered to the Gods, in
this game the players (eight per team) could hit the ball with their hips and score the
ball in a hope 6 meters above the floor. The ball was a heavy ball made of sheep leather.