Baseball:

The

earliest mention of baseball can be

Today’s

baseball is believed to be a North American development of rounders. The game

was brought over from the UK to Canada and the United States by immigrants. The

first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1786 diary entry by a

Princeton student. By the 1830s-50s, many amateur clubs played baseball.

Baseball went through a major transformation

when Alexander Joy Cartwright established a new set of rules for the game that

is closer to the modern game of baseball. The first recorded baseball game was

held in 1846 between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players. In 1876

the first professional baseball league, the National Association of

Professional Baseball Players (also called the National League or NL), was

established. The American League (AL or American League of Professional Base

Ball Players) was formed in 1901. These leagues merged in 2000 to form Major

League Baseball or MLB.

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5 – Who imported the games called rounders to

America ?

6 – When did the first mention of baseball

appear in litterature or documents ?

7 – Today’s Major League was born in 2000 by

the fusion of 2 existing professional baseball organisations.

American Football:

The origin of

American Football can be traced back to « Rugby Football » and « Association

Football » that were played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

A significant development in the evolution of American Football happened when

Walter Camp, at Yale University, began to establish specific rules. He is

considered the Father of American Football. College football started gaining

more popularity as the college teams attracted nationwide audiences. In 1920, the

American Football Association was formed and was renamed as the National

Football League (NFL) two years later. The NFL eventually became the major

league of American Football.

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3 – What level of

education is « COLLEGE » ?

4 – What is a synonym

for EVENTUALLY ?

Sport

These paintings date back to around 15,300

years ago, that is during the Upper Paleolithic Age. Similar cave paintings

dating back to 7000 BC, depicting wrestling, have also been found in Mongolia.

Egyptian monuments dating back to 2000 BC, which depict fishing, swimming,

rowing, athletics, wrestling, weightlifting, archery, and even different sorts

of ball games, were discovered.

Though sports

have been around for a long time, many modern sports that we see today, like

basketball, American football, and ice hockey, developed only within the last

couple of centuries. Many ancient sports are still played today but have

transformed dramatically. Boxing dates to 3000 BC in Egypt, but it was quite

different from what we see today.

It is hard to trace back the exact origin of

sports, but it is evident that human activities like travelling and military

training influenced its development. Boxing and wrestling are some of the

earliest sports to be played, but also other ancient sports including

footraces, horse riding, chariot racing, javelin throws, archery, etc. Even

soccer has its origins from the Chinese military training dating back to the

2nd century BCE.

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1 – What does

BC mean in 7000BC ?

2 – When were most major modern team sports born ?

Sport

These paintings date back to around 15,300

years ago, that is during the Upper Paleolithic Age. Similar cave paintings

dating back to 7000 BC, depicting wrestling, have also been found in Mongolia.

Egyptian monuments dating back to 2000 BC, which depict fishing, swimming,

rowing, athletics, wrestling, weightlifting, archery, and even different sorts

of ball games, were discovered.

Though sports

have been around for a long time, many modern sports that we see today, like

basketball, American football, and ice hockey, developed only within the last

couple of centuries. Many ancient sports are still played today but have

transformed dramatically. Boxing dates to 3000 BC in Egypt, but it was quite

different from what we see today.

It is hard to trace back the exact origin of

sports, but it is evident that human activities like travelling and military

training influenced its development. Boxing and wrestling are some of the

earliest sports to be played, but also other ancient sports including

footraces, horse riding, chariot racing, javelin throws, archery, etc. Even

soccer has its origins from the Chinese military training dating back to the

2nd century BCE.

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1 – What does

BC mean in 7000BC ?

2 – When were most major modern team sports born ?

Sport

These paintings date back to around 15,300

years ago, that is during the Upper Paleolithic Age. Similar cave paintings

dating back to 7000 BC, depicting wrestling, have also been found in Mongolia.

Egyptian monuments dating back to 2000 BC, which depict fishing, swimming,

rowing, athletics, wrestling, weightlifting, archery, and even different sorts

of ball games, were discovered.

Though sports

have been around for a long time, many modern sports that we see today, like

basketball, American football, and ice hockey, developed only within the last

couple of centuries. Many ancient sports are still played today but have

transformed dramatically. Boxing dates to 3000 BC in Egypt, but it was quite

different from what we see today.

It is hard to trace back the exact origin of

sports, but it is evident that human activities like travelling and military

training influenced its development. Boxing and wrestling are some of the

earliest sports to be played, but also other ancient sports including

footraces, horse riding, chariot racing, javelin throws, archery, etc. Even

soccer has its origins from the Chinese military training dating back to the

2nd century BCE.

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1 – What does

BC mean in 7000BC ?

2 – When were most major modern team sports born ?