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History of Sport Exam 1 with Questions and Answers Three fundamental principles of KNES 251 ANSWERV V 1. we cannot remove sport from the social, political, economic, and/or cultural context in which it takes place 2. we are surrounded by sport histories - these 'stories' are politicized and fraught with both positive and negative characteristics 3. we cannot appreciate sport without understanding history, and we cannot appreciate history without understanding sport dialectic relationship ANSWERV V two-way and mutually reinforcing between sport/physical activity and socicty long residual ANSWERV ¥ continuities and linkages between sport histories and the present Sport in Ancient Greece ANSWERV ¥ - olympics - focus on use, maintenance, management, meanings, and centrality of the male body - power and advantage of being free, male, and middle or upper-class Sport in Roman Empire ANS WERV V - believed in physical fitness for the ulterior end of warfare and saw the body as a representation of the empire - gladiator games were used as a distraction from politics - slaves were trained to fight as gladiators