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1. First records of the game of Tsu Chu can be found where?
2. What does Tsu Chu literally mean?
3. What was a zuqui?
4. When did a hollow ball filled with air replace the solid ball?
5. When was the first (alleged) international game between China and Japan?
6. What type of pitch was used for Kemari?
7. Which game was played by the Greeks as early as 800 BCE?
8. Why can we assume that the Romans developed their game of Harpastum shortly after 146 BCE?
9. What type of ball was used in Harpastum?
10. How did the game of Harpastum travel to most European countries?

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1. Records of the game of Tsu Chu can be found in miltary manuals dating back to the Tsin Dynasty which existed between 255 BCE and 206 BCE.

2. Tsu Chu literally means football with Tsu meaning 'kicking the ball with feet' and Chu meaning 'a ball made of leather and stuffed'.

3. A zuqui was a football, roughly the size of a volleyball, that was made of roughly stitched leather and stuffed with animal fur.

4. A hollow ball eventually repalced the solid one during the Tang Dynasty between 618 and 907.

5. The first (alleged) international game was in approximately 50 CE.

6. Kemari was played on a grass pitch marked out by trees. The pitch was called a kikutsubo and was marked out by a cherry tree, a maple, a willow and a pine.

7. Episkyro.

8. The Romans conquered Greece in 146 BCE, from where the game originated. It is fair to assume that the Romans dicsovered the Greek game of Harpastron and adopted their own version called Harpastum.

9. The ball was made from a stitched leather skin and stuffed with chopped up sponges or animal fur. The ball was approximately 8 inches in diameter.

10. The game itself was very popular with the Roman Army and thus they tended to play the game wherever they went. In most cases the game proved quite popular with the local population who then ended up playing the game
themselves.