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Pre industrial sport
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mob football | It was a mass game with very few rules. It was only played occasionally in all between villages |
| The development of mob football | It was plagued tween villages at a time of celebration festivities it was so violent people living nearby would barricade their homes during games. Some villages had vague rules restricting only murder or manslaughter and some historians think that the ga |
| Cock fighting | This was generally an upper-class sport and was probably the reason it survived so long, there was a great deal of gambling involved with the sport and it was made illegal by an act of parliament in 1849 |
| Social class | Upper class and lower class, the social class but you blocked into preindustrial Britain depended on your birth and this found yourself able to inspire the types of sports activities you involved in |
| Activities for lower class | For example mob football, pig fighting, smock race ,dogfighting a prizefighting these activities were simple often quite violent and had funerals |
| Upper class sport | Real tennis, foxhunting, cricket these activities are more sophisticated and had a complex set of rules all required money with which to participate so that only they could but is paid |
| Activities for both classes | Pedestrianism which was a form of 19 sentry competitive walking the lower classes will compete in it and I’ll classes will be sponsors for the participants. Cricket is also another example as there were the gentleman who were the gentry amateurs and the |
| Gender | I am participated very different activities to men they were shaped by the expected behaviour of women as they were seen as the weaker sex so activities had to be not too strenuous or dangerous. Peasant women may have been able to get involved in a small |
| Law and order | He had a little formal law and order and the shapes the types of activities that were undertaken. The present classes will be involved in violent activity such as bareknuckled fighting or animal baiting |
| Education and literacy | Top classes were educated and literate so able to read more and understand the roles of more sophisticated activities where as other classes were both in activities that was important and sophisticated with few rules such as mob football |
| Availability of time | Lower class person to work very long and exhausting howas sleeping on the land so there was little appetite for support activities because of exhaustion from work therefore many activities were confined to festivals or holy day fares. I’ll call several ti |
| Availability of money | Of course much more money available to hide opportunities for both and they can afford equipment and appropriate clothing. Low peasants don’t have a disposable income available so often use their own land and equipment that was available |
| Type of availability of transport | Mainly horse and cart with Mr population having to walk if they wish to get from one place to another as the writer that time in an appalling state so this happened in front of activities being developed locally. The other cars had more opportunity to tra |