Who Invented the Ball? Detailed answer

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Who Invented the Ball?

No one knows who first started playing ball, but it was in prehistoric times. Every civilization, from primitive times to the present day, has played games using different types of balls. Some ancient peoples wove a reed ball, others used leather stuffed with bird feathers to play with.

Later, the Greeks and Romans came up with a great idea - to use the air. An inflated leather ball called a "follis" was used for throwing and catching. They also inflated a large ball with which they played a form of football or other games where the ball was kicked. Balls were made from a variety of materials that were available in large quantities in a given country.

The North American Indians, for example, were hunters, so they played with a ball made from deerskins. Japanese children played with balls made of dense fabric, entangled with rope. It is said that Columbus met Indians in Central America who played with hard balls made of rubber. He took some of these balls with him to Europe and thus introduced Europeans to bouncing rubber balls. Many of today's ball games originated as religious or magical ceremonies.

Often ball games were based on old ideas about war, gods, devils, life and death. The Egyptians were among the first people to conduct ceremonial ball games. Every spring, two large groups of people competed on the side of their gods. The game was played with a round wooden ball and curved sticks. The goal was to get the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team that acted more harmoniously and persistently won the victory in the name of their god.

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Who Invented Notes?

For a long time, music was not recorded. It was sung or played from memory. It passed from one performer to another and distorted over time. It was necessary to find a way to record music in order for it to be performed exactly the way it was composed by the author. So there was a way to record music with the help of notes.

The system of musical notation adopted today in the Western world was created over the centuries - from the end of the 1700th century to the early XNUMXs. It originated in the cathedrals and monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church. Many church services were sung, but they were sung from memory. By the end of the XNUMXth century, they began to write dots and dashes over the words of the prayer book, as well as draw small curls. These icons were not yet notes, they only showed the direction of the melody and were still very inaccurate.

By 900 A.D. e. came up with a better way. Signs began to be written at a certain distance above or below the horizontal red line, which meant the note "fa" in pitch. Such a record showed where you need to sing high, and where - low. The stave was invented by the monk Guido d'Arezzo. It consisted of four lines. This method made it possible to show the duration of each note. It was improved in the XIII-XIV centuries. The notes took on a new form, with sticks added to some of them in accordance with their duration. By the 1600s, the notes became round and the musical notation took on a modern look.

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