Medieval Islamic games
Medieval Islamic games: Muslims playing chess in Spain Chess from India The big new game of the Islamic Empire was chess. The Arabs learned to play chess from the Sassanians when [...]
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Indian games: ancient India
Indian games: A die found in excavations at a Harappan period site. Note that the six is not opposite the one. The first games in India People brought the idea [...]
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Athletic events – Ancient Greek Olympics
Greek Olympic events - Men's footrace (Athens, ca. 530 BC) A short foot race At first, the only athletic competition at the Olympics was a single short foot race, 170 [...]
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Wrestling, Martial Arts, and Olympics – History of Sports
Sports history: The Discus-Thrower (ca. 450 BC) The earliest sports Indo-European people like Central Asians and the Greeks had a very strong tradition of athletic competition. Competing in, and winning, [...]
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Ancient Egyptian games: play and toys in ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian games: knucklebones Egyptian board games: senet and mancala Ancient Egyptian games were a lot like some games people still play today. Some Egyptian games were traditional African games. [...]
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Alpamysh – an early Central Asian story
Central Asian horses, like in the Alpamysh story When is the Alpamysh from? Nobody knows who composed the Alpamysh, or exactly when, but they probably first sang the Alpamysh in [...]
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Central Asian games – wrestling, polo, archery
Wrestlers from Samarkand (Uzbekistan, 600s AD) People in Central Asia played games that helped them get better at skills they would need in their lives. They needed to ride horses [...]
