Author: Archit Tripathi / Source: did you know?
Things moved a lot slower in the old days. Netflix wasn’t around yet, and neither was the internet, so how in the world did folks entertain themselves back then? Aside from drinking, I mean.
As the list below will show you, people definitely had some really odd ways of staying busy back in the day.
We’re all familiar with this bloody, brutal part of history. Although the Romans are historically most famous for their epic gladiator battles, it was actually a very popular form of entertainment through much of the ancient world.
Gladiators would fight each other in one-on-one combat or in groups, and they sometimes even fought wild animals or held mock “naval” battles. It was only with the rise of Christianity that the practice eventually fell out of favor.
Although we don’t fight to the death, the popularity of wrestling, boxing, MMA, and other such contests prove that we still enjoy a little violent entertainment to this day.
Rolling a hoop was a popular diversion for kids all around the world for a long, long time. There were all sorts of variations and rules, but at its most basic it was just about rolling a hoop as long as possible with the aid of a stick.
Stick-pulling, despite the somewhat dirty-sounding name and hilarious illustration above, is actually pretty tame. It’s basically an older version of tug-of-war, where the goal is for both players to pull in opposing directions until one of them bends their knees and/or crosses a marker.
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