Pre industrial Britain

Question 1

Categories which influence pre-industrial sport:

Answer 1

1) Social class
2) Gender
3) Law and Order
4) Education/ literacy
5) Availability of time
6) Availability of money
7) Type and Availability of transport

Question 2

Types of social class in pre industrial Britain

Answer 2

1) Upper class/ aristocracy/ gentry

2) Lower class/ peasants

Question 3

Upper class factors:

Answer 3

1) Landowners
2) born into this class
3) Wealthy
4) Privileged
5) powerful
6) more leisure time
7) educated

Question 4

Lower class factors:

Answer 4

1) Determined by birth
2) worked manually on land
3) poor
4) uneducated
5) low status
6) no influence
7) long strenuous hours so little leisure

Question 5

Sports for Upper class and characteristics

Answer 5

Real Tennis , Fox hunting

• sophisticated complex rules
• required money to take part

Question 6

Sports for Lower class and characteristics

Answer 6

Mob football, Bare knuckle prize fighting

• often violent
• few rules
• only went ahead on festivals and holy days

Question 7

Sports for both classes and description

Answer 7

Pedestrianism- running or walking races

• Lower class would be competitors
• Upper class would be sponsors