KIN 2501 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Aristotle - ✔✔studied with plato for 20 years, tutored alexander the great when he
was 13
✔✔Aristotle - ✔✔started his own school, The Lyceum; belief that the health of the
soul/mind was contingent on a healthy body, that PE was necessary as well as
grammar, music and drawing
✔✔ancient greece - ✔✔birthplace of western civilization; advanced society, first
dominant culture in Europe
✔✔odyssey - ✔✔odysseus proving self
✔✔Iliad - ✔✔funeral games of Patrocius
✔✔athlete - ✔✔one who competes for a prize
✔✔greek ideal - ✔✔unity of man of action and man of wisdom
✔✔arete - ✔✔all-around physical, mental, moral individual excellence one strove for
✔✔Sparta - ✔✔military, discipline-oriented society, education focused on preparation of
boys for military
✔✔athens - ✔✔embracers of the greek ideal, society reflected dual emphasis on
intelligence and physical; educational system; gymnasiums
✔✔informal contests - ✔✔between soldiers as they trained or waited for battle, to pass
time
✔✔funeral games - ✔✔well organized contests held by warriors after the funeral of a
man killed in battle
✔✔best known funeral game - ✔✔described by Homer in book XXIII of the Iliad
✔✔wreath games - ✔✔Olympia, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian
✔✔secular games - ✔✔initially held in over 300 cities primarily for entertainment
✔✔ancient olympics - ✔✔largest set of religious festival, honored Zeus, every 4 years
late summer in Olympia, national unity community, religion
, ✔✔olympic competitors/ prize - ✔✔greek males, trained, nude
won officially-olive wreath
in practice-fame and fortune
✔✔events in olympics - ✔✔5 day program; horse races, chariot races wrestling, boxing,
pancration, footraces
✔✔changes in olympics and end of olympics - ✔✔change in emphasis (religion-
winning),
development of potential future Olympics, increase in professionalism, cheating, bribery,
corruption
✔✔400 AD - ✔✔rome ends pagan religious festivals
✔✔contributions of ancient Greece to sports - ✔✔appreciation of sports, athletic body,
competition, health, beauty of movement
✔✔contributions - ✔✔concept of physical education-first to make rules for games,
developed gymnasiums
✔✔physical education/fitness as career - ✔✔first training methods
✔✔beginning of modern olympics - ✔✔1896-1st modern olymic
✔✔Dr. William Penny Brooks - ✔✔Wenlock Olympics
✔✔Pierre de Coubertin - ✔✔devoted his life to improving the national character of the
youth of France
✔✔Olympic Games-1908 - ✔✔London, political turmoil-finland and ireland, U.S flag
bearer, marathon distance changes, creation of international sport federations
✔✔ancient rome - ✔✔Rome trailed Greece by around 700 years
grew through military conquests
eventually ruled most of Europe and north Africa
✔✔ancient Rome - ✔✔class based society
governed by senate and later emperors (Julius Ceasar)
✔✔Rome's contributions to history of sport - ✔✔gladiator contests at the colosseum,
chariot races at the circus maximus
-sport as a business
-sport as entertainment
-events were planned and organized
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Aristotle - ✔✔studied with plato for 20 years, tutored alexander the great when he
was 13
✔✔Aristotle - ✔✔started his own school, The Lyceum; belief that the health of the
soul/mind was contingent on a healthy body, that PE was necessary as well as
grammar, music and drawing
✔✔ancient greece - ✔✔birthplace of western civilization; advanced society, first
dominant culture in Europe
✔✔odyssey - ✔✔odysseus proving self
✔✔Iliad - ✔✔funeral games of Patrocius
✔✔athlete - ✔✔one who competes for a prize
✔✔greek ideal - ✔✔unity of man of action and man of wisdom
✔✔arete - ✔✔all-around physical, mental, moral individual excellence one strove for
✔✔Sparta - ✔✔military, discipline-oriented society, education focused on preparation of
boys for military
✔✔athens - ✔✔embracers of the greek ideal, society reflected dual emphasis on
intelligence and physical; educational system; gymnasiums
✔✔informal contests - ✔✔between soldiers as they trained or waited for battle, to pass
time
✔✔funeral games - ✔✔well organized contests held by warriors after the funeral of a
man killed in battle
✔✔best known funeral game - ✔✔described by Homer in book XXIII of the Iliad
✔✔wreath games - ✔✔Olympia, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian
✔✔secular games - ✔✔initially held in over 300 cities primarily for entertainment
✔✔ancient olympics - ✔✔largest set of religious festival, honored Zeus, every 4 years
late summer in Olympia, national unity community, religion
, ✔✔olympic competitors/ prize - ✔✔greek males, trained, nude
won officially-olive wreath
in practice-fame and fortune
✔✔events in olympics - ✔✔5 day program; horse races, chariot races wrestling, boxing,
pancration, footraces
✔✔changes in olympics and end of olympics - ✔✔change in emphasis (religion-
winning),
development of potential future Olympics, increase in professionalism, cheating, bribery,
corruption
✔✔400 AD - ✔✔rome ends pagan religious festivals
✔✔contributions of ancient Greece to sports - ✔✔appreciation of sports, athletic body,
competition, health, beauty of movement
✔✔contributions - ✔✔concept of physical education-first to make rules for games,
developed gymnasiums
✔✔physical education/fitness as career - ✔✔first training methods
✔✔beginning of modern olympics - ✔✔1896-1st modern olymic
✔✔Dr. William Penny Brooks - ✔✔Wenlock Olympics
✔✔Pierre de Coubertin - ✔✔devoted his life to improving the national character of the
youth of France
✔✔Olympic Games-1908 - ✔✔London, political turmoil-finland and ireland, U.S flag
bearer, marathon distance changes, creation of international sport federations
✔✔ancient rome - ✔✔Rome trailed Greece by around 700 years
grew through military conquests
eventually ruled most of Europe and north Africa
✔✔ancient Rome - ✔✔class based society
governed by senate and later emperors (Julius Ceasar)
✔✔Rome's contributions to history of sport - ✔✔gladiator contests at the colosseum,
chariot races at the circus maximus
-sport as a business
-sport as entertainment
-events were planned and organized
