Aztec Rubber Ball Game

At the end of the semester we played the mesoamerican ball game.

Aztec rubber ball game.

Ancient mesoamericans were the first people to invent rubber balls nahuatl languages. Every town and village in the aztec empire had a ball court. Each team tried to get a rubber ball across the center line into their opponents side. There were two ways to get points.

The aztec version of the ballgame is called ōllamalitzli sometimes spelled ullamaliztli and are derived from the word ōlli rubber and the verb ōllama or to play ball. Serious injury was common as players dove onto stone courts to keep a ball in play and would end the game bloodied and bruised. 1502 1520 ce and the king of texcoco. The ball itself was called ōllamaloni and the ballcourt was called a tlachtli ˈtɬatʃtɬi.

The latter had predicted. The ball court was usually in the shape of an i although there were some variations around the court was a slope surrounded at the outer edge by walls about 8 11 feet high. ōllamaloni sometime before 1600 bce and used them in a variety of roles the mesoamerican ballgame for example employed various sizes of solid rubber balls and balls were burned as offerings in temples buried in votive deposits and laid in sacred bogs and cenotes. One of the common links of the mayan culture of mexico guatemala honduras and belize is the game played with a rubber ball about which we have learned from several.

The team with the most points won. Tarkanian and hosler mostly created sheets of rubber in the lab but they did make a few rubber balls during one session. Maya ballgame which is a branch of the mesoamerican ballgame is a sporting event that was played throughout the mesoamerican era by the maya civilization the maya civilization was spread out throughout much of central america. The aztec ball game had a distinctive court known as the tlachtli or tlachco.

But of course the biggest and best was in the capital city. The goal of the game was simple. A foretaste of what would become common practice for players unfortunate enough to lose a game. Losing the game hun hunahpús had his head cut off.