1 - Mesopotamia (4000 BC).
2 - Ancient Egypt (about 3500 BC).
3 - India (3000 BC).
4 - Ancient China (2000 BC).
5 - Greece (3000 BC).
The Greeks of the first systems to use exercise to give her the point of educational, health, sports or military. The term also appeared Djimanastic art aims to strengthen the body and improve flexibility.
A - Sparta
B - Athens: The employment of physical activities and sports Several of the objectives, including the military and health and sports and recreation.
.... Philosophers and thinkers interested in highlighting the role of physical activity in different areas vital to society, which indicates the paper Greek thought in the sports field:
- Epicurus (the founder of Health Education): The Djimanastic aware of and effectively use the exercises to classify healthy and therapeutic.
- Plato is classified Djimanastic to educational, health and military, and most importantly in his view.
Has been rated physical exercise, which was taught to the young Athenian into three sections and is Albalstrk and Ambassarstic and a Erkastrk.
And the Greeks had built Albalistra ( (Palestra Djimnaz and also the so-called Gymnasium(Gymnasium ): Kmenhat private practice physical activities and sports mainly.
And may spread to sports festivals of religious significance in ancient Greece in general. And the Olympic Games were the first and most famous and the most radiant. Although not selected and the start of these games but since 776 BC. M became conducted regularly and every four years.
6 - Romanian civilization
.... And here we refer to the Greek civilization influenced by the Romans in the field of health physical education and sport, where they built baths that practiced the exercises and a light ball games and Mnazlat, in addition to swimming in the pool bathroom extension. Also allocated for restrooms and other massage and some of the training and the belief Ballasting them wisely Juvenal, "a healthy mind in a sound body" and following the tips health education thinkers such as Cicero and Quintlian. And has been practicing Greek festivals sports for four centuries under the auspices of the Romans and continued until the Olympic Games 393 m .
For more references see Search No. 1, 4, 6 and 8 in the list of Arabic references.
1 Kholi Secretary Anwar. Assets of Physical Education and Sport: entrance History Philosophy. House of the Arab Thought 1998.
2_ Najm al-Din Suhrawardi. Outlined in the Philosophy and History of Physical Education. Baghdad, 1980.
3 Hassan Ahmad al-Shafi'i. Sport and Law: a philosophy of physical education and history.
4_ Kurdish Mamdouh. Sports story and history. The second edition of Beirut Library Modern Printing and Publishing, 1990.
5 Amiri and Mohammed Kamal Badawi, Essam. The scientific development of the concept of sport. Library Renaissance Egyptian first edition, 1992.
