how did the nature of medieval tournaments change over time?
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Combat evolved along w/the weapons used at the time. ie/jousting was first used to settle arguments. time went on and it became a spectator sport. as far as weapons are conserned: armor piercing arrows did away w/heavy armor tictical assults made the knight too slow and out dated. then gun powder was westernized and pistol deuling took its place.
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Races, contests of strength and agility, wrestling, and other games were played.\n\nI would like to invite you to travel along the shores of history. The journey will start today with one of the oldest boardgames, Senet, which was played in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaohs.\n\nmancala\nhttp://nabataea.net/games3.html
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you could argue about the social as well as military value of the swoard in medieval times. they were a judge of one's character... see the link below
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Every 4..\nI´ve found this explanation:\nExcept in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II, the championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930. However, the event is often ongoing, as the qualifying rounds of the competition take place over the three years preceding the final rounds.\n\nThe final tournament phase (often called the "Finals") involves 32 national teams competing over a four-week period in a previously nominated host nation. This time is Germany. For 2002 were Korea and Japan and for 2010 South Africa.
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The tournament committee works out the pins placements.  The tournaments that play the same course every year tend to use the same one for the same day every year
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1.The conquest\nCentralization\n\n2.Power of Henry I and Henry II\nNoble rebellions under Stephen\nDestruction of Castles\n\n3.England - Parliament\nMagna Carta 1215 - feud and               constitutional\nBarons Revolt 1265 - Simon de Montfort\nBarons, + reps from towns and shires.\nEdward I (1272-1307. used them to raise money.\nRegular Parliaments in early 14th century
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I believe that originally boxing occurred in a circle painted or drawn on the ground.  The boxers had to remain inside, and the spectators had to stay out side.  When ropes where added (for safety) the obvious shape for them to be is a square, but by then the boxing community had called it a "ring" so long that the name stuck.
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Depends on what you call a "Castle". Most medieval "castles" were built from stone. There were earlier, what could be more termed as "forts" constructed from wood etc. but as stone cutting came in to more common use and society moved in to the "castle age" which were really walled, fortified cities or "citadels" wood was no longer much of a defense against raiders. As to what was the "first" castle, I doubt if that can even be answered as such because a lot of them sprang up around the same time.
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FIFA changed the rules for the 1954 World Cup. Below there is an extract from a book on World Cup History:\n\n"FIFA retained the mini-league system but couldn't resist a little tinkering. Instead of each team plaing all the others in the group, two were seeded and would play only the two non-seeds - and any matches drawn after ninety minutes would go to extra-time. Arbitrary and confusing.\n\n(...)\n\nNot content with the complications they'd arranged for the group matches, FIFA had decided on a fred draw for the knockout stage, leaving the possibility of the group winners playing each other in the quarter-finals instead of being rewarded with matches against the runners-up."\n\nNote: the seeded teams were chosen before the tournament. Spain was included as favourite even before playing a game in qualifying, but then they lost to Turkey on a coin-toss after a draw in their third and final game (one win apeace in each of the games before) and Turkey got seeded.
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I believe it started with the French and British back in the castle age. The French would capture an enemy solder and cut there middle finger off so they couldn't fire a cross bow. So before battle they would flip off the other to show the other side they could still shoot a crossbow. I am pretty sure it was one or the other.
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With tapestrys on the walls of the stone halls and probably with suits of armor against the walls as well. The dining hall has long tables and straw on the floor that is changed after meals because people throw rubbish (like chicken bones and such) on the floor. \n\np.s.- its spelled medieval
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it used to be two different things. Kinda like Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus.
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a change in the times.  look at basketball\nb
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as old as time. traditions and religions have changed and evolved over time.
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The best site about the subject is\nInternet Medieval Sourcebook located at the \nFordham University Center for Medieval Studies\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html\nIt has everything one wants to know on this period.\nOthers sites are\nhttp://www.medtimes.org/\nhttp://www.medievaltimes.com/
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Cricket began in Northern Europe sometime after the Roman Empire and before the Normans invaded England.\nAll research concedes that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club. \n\nHow the game evolved from there is not known.\nWhat is agreed is that by Tudor times cricket had evolved far enough from club–ball to be recognisable as the game played today; that it was well established in many parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey; that within a few years it had become a feature of leisure time at a significant number of schools; and – a sure sign of the wide acceptance of any game – that it had become popular enough among young men to earn the disapproval of local magistrates.
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It changes every year.\n\nIn 2006: \nStrasbourg, Obernai, Esch-sur-Alzette, Valkenburg, Huy, Saint-Quentin, Beauvais, Caen, Lisieux, Vitré, Rennes, Saint-Grégoire, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Lorient\nThen all participants fly to Bordeaux\nBordeaux, Dax, Cambo-les-Bains, Pau, Tarbes, Val d'Aran - Pla-de-Beret, Luchon, Carcassonne, Béziers Méditerranée, Montélimar, Gap, L'Alpe d'Huez, Le Bourg d'Oisans, La Toussuire Les Sybelles, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Morzine-Avoriaz, Mâcon, Le Creusot, Montceau-les-Mines, Antony, Paris - Champs-Élysées.\n\nI provide the link below, but it's a mess, especially if you don't read French (I do)