- GREECE

Time line of Physical

- Sparta
education
 Only the strongest and the healthiest
- PRIMITIVE SOCIETY babies are allowed to live in Sparta.
 Popular physical activities were
- Practical
wrestling, swimming, and horseback
- Demands of primitive life riding

- Mimetic games - Athens

- Dancing  Physical Education and athletic

- ACIENT NATION
- Persia
 Developing young men military skills,
high moral standards and patriotism to
strengthen and extend the empire is
the primary aim of physical education
competition was prominent feature of
Athenian education
 Sport was associated not only physical
but with philosophy, music, literature,
painting, and particularly with
sculpture.
- ROMAN

- Egypt War was the prestige profession of the Romans,

which necessitated brutal methods for training
 Hunt, trap and fish with the use of the body
bows, spears and harpoons.
 Swimming The maintenance and natural goal for the
 Wrestling Romans.
 Gymnast activities and games - Plato
- China  Considered Gymnastics and music as
 Emphasis is on intellectual excellence. two most important subjects in the
 National leader were expected to be curriculum
proficient in shooting the bow and - Aristotle
horseback riding
 Military men were given examinations 
on lifting the weights, shooting the bow - Herodotus
and handling the sword
 He recognized the use of physical
-India education as medicine in early as 5th
 Throwing balls, tumbling, chariot races, century.
racing, elephants and horse, and - Hippocrates
playing dice and marbles
 Yoga was popular  The law of use and disuse
 Dances were used for ceremonies and - Xenophon
religious observances
 Hindu dances – oldest dances in India
  He thought of physical education as - Most institution of higher learning provided
important in terms of military and some program of gymnastic for their students
essential to success in life soundness of
- Intramurals athletics gained more prominence
mind and body.
- Sports, athletics and team games became
-MIDDLE AGES
more important.
- Asceticism
-GOLDEN 20
- Scholasticism
-More games are popular, sports and free play
- Chivalry emerged as a kind of education became popular.

-Medieval tournament was the most famous of -DEPRESSION YEARS

the war games.
- RENAISSANCE PERIOD
With the emergence of the Philosophy of
humanism and its concepts of the “universal
man”, physical education became more valued.
-Physical education are getting more involved in
recreation programs in the agencies and
projects concerned with unemployed persons
-Women’s athletic associations increased in
numbers.

- Pope Pius II

- Martin Luther

- Thomas Elyot

- Roger Ascham

- Francois Rabelais

- Richard Mulcaster

- EUROPE

- Johann Bernhard Basedow

-Johann Christoph Friedrich Gutsmuths

- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

- 19th CENTURY AMERICA

- Many American became athletes and

spectators.

- Attitudes toward sport changes as they

changed the attitudes towards religion

- Turverein movement

-Early 20th CENTURY