Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marion Bartoli, Curt Flood, Ronda Rousey
6 Dec 2016
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Women get to play sports should be more regulated. Fall of the roman empire less emphasis on living lavishly. This is also referred to as the dark ages. There were different factions in the community there was more physical activity because they had to hunt their own food. Once again the ancient greek ideals, which glorified the human body gained wide spread acceptance. Individuals, like philosopher john locke, maintained that good fitness enhanced intellectual learning. The aristocracy in europe favoured sports such as fencing or jousting. Team sports were an invention of western culture. You have an 1000 year period with less advancement (dark times), renaissance means rebirth intellectual thinkers and scholars. The more developed they are the more values are placed on the human body. If we are active then we feel better (intuitive notion of physical activity leading to a well organized society)
