popular and rational recreation

Question 1

where did people live in pre industrial britain

Answer 1

countryside/rural

Question 2

life for upper class in pre industrial britain

Answer 2

comfortable and luxurious

Question 3

did lower class have free time in pib

Answer 3

no they have little free time as they had long working hours and the agricultural calender dictated work

Question 4

pib has widespread

Answer 4

illiteracy as the lower classes were uneducated

Question 5

pib limited

Answer 5

communications and transport

Question 6

pib football- played occasionally becasue

Answer 6

of limited free time, linked to seasons/religious holidays and bank holidays

Question 7

pib football- local becasue

Answer 7

limited transport/communications

Question 8

pib football- limited organisation and few rules because

Answer 8

they were illiterate

Question 9

pib football- violent because

Answer 9

society was harsh and violent in nature

Question 10

pib footbball- lower class participation because

Answer 10

mob games were viewed as suitable activites for the lower classes

Question 11

pib football- rural because

Answer 11

society was agrarian in nature with the population spread out in countryside

Question 12

pib football- natural/simple because

Answer 12

people used what was readily available to them eg open fields and rivers and streams and hedges

Question 13

explain how mob football reflected the characteristics of pib society (3)

Answer 13

harsh lifestyle=physical and violent
lower class were poor=less equipment
lack of time/long working hours=played occasionally.
lack of transport/comms=was locally played and played differently in each place
illiterate=simple
rural=played over large undefined areas

Question 14

identify the correct combination of characteristics of real tennis:

moral codes/rules/regular
moral codes/simples/wagering
moral codes/unruly/violent

(1)

Answer 14

moral codes/rules/regular