GAMES AND SPORTS ARE OUR CULTURAL HERRAGE
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Culture and the civilization, no doubt, contribute in games and sports. That is why different games are famous in different countries. One cannot point out the time when the sports started but, they have been a part of man’s everyday life ever since he learned to struggle for his physical needs, e.g., use of sticks, bows and arrows to kill prey.
Later these activities could have resulted in competitive sports. People learn culture and that is culture’s essential feature. Unlike genetically transmitted qualities, culture is a body of learned behaviour common to a give human society and acts rather like a template (i.e. with predictable form and content) shaping behaviour and consciousness within a human society from generation to generation.
Thereby, like everything else that societies have invented, sports evolved over time. Some games endure in some form or change slowly, e.g., archery, javelin throw, etc. Races too have been held since ancient times. Some sports die out like the ball games that the Aztec Indians played or the brutal games of the colliseum of Rome.