History of Games

Game playing is an activity thats dates back well beyondrecorded history and probally arrivedsoon after peoples themselves. Ball games, For instance, where probaly firs played with stone thrown by youngsters as a way of preparing for the hunt - or for defending the tribe or attacking enemies. Then people started to polishand shapes these stones to make them round and good for throwing.
Archacologist have foundstones like theset hat date back at least 5.000 years.

Over the countries balls have been made from stone, papyrus, marble, wood, and terra cotta, or sewn together from animal hides and stuffed with hay, kapok, sawdust, or seeds.
It was not until the early 19th century that the solid, bouncing rubber ball was first introduced.

Race and tag games had similar origins. Participants built up agility and strength for the hunt-and no equipmentwas needed, except for a pair of study legs. Other games may have evolved out of ancient rituals. Apple Ducking has been traditional Halloween game since medieval times but may have it roots even earlier in Celtic Britainand teh festival of samhain.

This was when teh worlds of the living and the dead where believed to move closer togehter and past, present, and future where said to merge.
When the Romans conquered Britain, they brought with them the apple tree and its fruit. which respresented the goddess Pomona. who was assosiated with fertility.
The Celt belived teh apple had special power to predict the future.

During their celebrations their young people hade to bite into apples were floating in water-and the fisrt successful couple whould be tehe next to marry. There is world of the diference betweenthe supposed origin of this game and the extravagant manner in which the young King Edward V11 of the England is said to have played Apple Ducking in the mid 19th century, with the apple bobbing in wine bucket filled with chapagne!

It is however, hugily difficult to pinpoint the exact origins of many games. Most have been around for every long time, and although early records such as an ancient tomb painting may be evidence of game's existence, it does not help determine whether the game originated in the culture or was simply adapted from somewhere else. Centuries of migration, trade , war, and travel have carried games all arround the world.