TASK 1 - Introduction Sport has developed over time from the original Olympics in Ancient Greece to the adaptation of the mob games in pre-industrial revolution Britain. These changes have come about from influences from the media, politics and other countries and cultures. The first section show...
James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of the overseas trade for the nation.... One early English explorer to visit Africa was William Hawkins who in the 1530's made voyages to Guinea to obtain ivory and gold, commodities the area was rich in, at this stage in history it did not appear that Britain had a great interest in the trade of human slaves. ...
The biographical or semibiographical accounts of knightly deeds in the Crusades gave rise to the critical history of William of Tyre. 7 Contact with Byzantines and Muslims broadened history writing by showing the Westerners other points of view. ... In the United States, romantic historians, such as George Bancroft, William H. ... Turner, emphasized social and economic factors in explaining historical development, as did the "new history- of James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. ...
