2. • After fall of Rome (476 A.D.) until 900 A.D.
• It belongs to a period of European History called
The Middle Ages or Medieval Period (from about
500 A.D. to 1500 A.D.)
• A time during which a civilization undergoes a
decline.
GENERAL HISTORY
3. WHY IT IS BEING CALLED AS “ DARK AGES”?
• Because it brings images of war, destruction and
death.
4. WHAT HAPPENED DURING DARK AGES?
Common people in Europe faced tough
times due to the formation and rising of
feudal system.
Feudalism- a political system in Middle Ages in
which people worked and fought for nobles who gave
them protection and the use of the land in return.
5. Peasants worked the
land and produced
the goods that the
lord and his manor
needed. They were
heavily taxed and
were required to
relinquish much of
what they harvested.
Castles and walled
cities designed by
desperate people for
protection.
6. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DURING DARK AGES
( Early Part)
• There was no need for “physical
education” in the middle ages because life
was a physical test just to live, people had
to work that required heavy physical
activities.
7. • St. Thomas Aquinas
(1225–1274)
• Embraced physical fitness and
recreation as positive for
promoting social and moral
well-being
• Said that intelligence depends
in part on the physical fitness
level of the individual
.
( LATER PART)
8. CHIVALRY AS PHYSICAL EDUCATION
• The only profession
nobility had was war.
Thus, physical
education and sports
prepared the young
for the military. War,
not peace was the
normal way of life.
