Medieval+Games+and+Entertainment

= Medieval Games and Entertainment =

//**What was the significance of this topic during the Middle Ages?**//

My topic is on Medieval games and the significance it had during the Middle Ages. People in the middle ages played a lot of games that required activity. Many of the sports they played are still around today. Their favorite sporting event was the tournament. They used this to prepare soldiers for war. They called dice and board games sitting games. They then passed a law that made it illegal for workers to playing them on work days. They wrote instruction books on how to play chess. The first one was written by Master Nicholas. Playing all the games kept their minds off the war. That is how Medieval games had significance during the middle ages. By TW Works Cited
 * “Games and Pastimes.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1996. 140-143. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 May 2010.

//**Include a picture that relates to this topic. Explain what the picture is showing.**//



It is people fighting with swords. Works Cited
 * Bahna, Rado. “file:Slovak Republic - Beckov Castle - Castle history.games.JPG.” Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Apr. 2007. Web. 5 May 2010. .

//**How did this topic influence life and events of the time period?**//

My topic, which is "Medieval Games and Entertainment", influenced life and games of today like the card game called "War" and many more. Some things like the game they had with a ball made out of leather and cloth and used their feet to play. This may remind you of soccer today because of a game with a ball and using your feet. Another thing is "Master of the Sword", where you try to pull a rock out of a rock. This may remind you of a theme park game where you try to hit the place where you hit the hammer and the bell goes up and hits the bell. This is how the games influenced the games of today. Works Cited
 * “Games and Pastimes.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 2. New York: Gale, 1996. 140 - 143. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 May 2010.

// **Connect this topic to something we studied earlier or to the world today.** //

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//**Describe, define or explain this topic.**//

Many people during the Middle Ages attended games for entertainment. There were two different types of games; action games, and sitting games. The action games included blind-man's buff, leap frog, tug-of-war, and hide and seek. All of the balls used for ball games were either made out of leather or fabric filled with rags because rubber was not known back then. There were also very popular game that included fencing, archery, stone-tossing, and wrestling. Tournaments were attractions that residents went to for entertainment. They were made up of several events with the most popular being joust. Tournaments were festive locations and lots of people had pretend tournaments for the fun and humor of them.The sitting games included card games, dice games, and board games. Chess was the most favored game to play and was considered a "war game". As you can see, many of the things we enjoy doing today, the people from the Middle Ages also enjoyed to do. PW Works Cited
 * “Games and Pastimes.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 140-143. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 May 2010.

//**What was the impact of this topic on today's society?**//

There are people that think the middle ages games and entertainment are fun and not fun but there like the same almost. Their are two different types of games sitting and action games they were found in Europe and Islamic world. Wrestling and fencing and archery take skill and strength which we still have today. Bowling games also take skill they through a wooden ball down a lane to try to knock down ten wooden pins this sport is just like bowling today with a ball and ten pins to knock down, just little different from today. They have tournaments for sports just like we do today in our time, some kinds of tournaments we have are the Olympics, world series, Stanley cup. That was how the middle ages games and entertainment were are like the same almost. HK Works Cited
 * “Games and Pastimes.” The Middle Ages. Ed. William Jordan. Vol. 2. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 140-143. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 5 May 2010.

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