History Flashcards
Pre-Industrial Era
- No travel
- Nomadic people who follow food
Pre-Christian Civilization
- Agricultural
- Economic Surplus
- Class structure
- eat well so fertility increases
Recreation - games
Travel - commercial / trade
-too dangerous
Ancient Egypt
Knowledge of Arts, science, engineering
-specialized social system
Recreation - gym, music, House of beer
Travel - trade/commercial
- religious and festive
- military travel
Ancient Greece
- pursuit of ideal man
- 70 days of festivities
Recreation - sports & arts
- public baths and gardens
- olympics
Travel - water travel (ships)
-religious pilgrimages
-olympics
spread of greek language (currency)
Ancient Rome
-200 festival days
-middle class greater wealth
Recreation- sports and arts commercialized
-less active
-stadiums for sports and festivals
Travel - advanced road and water ways
**travel meant wealth and stability
Early Christian Era (400-100 AD)
- stadiums destroyed
- gambling forbidden
travel - great interest/too dangerous
- lost infrastructure
Dark Ages & Pilgrimages
Post roman era (476-1450 AD)
-medieval europe
Renaissance Period
-Rebirth of arts Recreation - tennis, ballet, opera -festivals, events **Travel- Birth of grand tours -educational travel Tramping - work internships for crafts
Protestant Reformation
-influenced by reformation
-work and religion good
Recreation - gambling popular but forbidden
-sabbath
Industrial Revolution 1840-1890
- urbanization
- free time and rational leisure
- *Thomas Cook - alcohol is bad
- owned printing press
- mass follows class
- sold packages to middle class
Colonial America
- bible
- sabbath and saint monday
recreation - some sports
- card games popular
- hunting
travel - restricted access
- southern seaside resort
Club Med 1950
- Gerard Bitz & Gilbert trigano
- sell fun not travel
- gated resorts
- 75% of travel is leisure
- modernization of work 40 hrs a week
