Ancient sports

thumb|Chess set from Rajasthan, India Chaturanga (, , ) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.

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Cuju or '''''ts'u-chü''''' () is an ancient Chinese football game that resembles a mix of basketball, association football (soccer), and volleyball. FIFA cites cuju as the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is documentary evidence, drawing references from a military manual from the Han dynasty.

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structure used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame

thumb|Illustration of a chunkey player (left) based on an ancient Mississippian culture|Mississippian gorget design (upper-right). The disk (lower-right) which could be carried in hand is not to scale. (Artist [[Herb Roe)]] Chunkey (also known as chunky, chenco, tchung-kee or the hoop and stick game) is a game of Native American origin. It was played by rolling disc-shaped stones across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to land the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible. It originated around 600 CE in the Cahokia region of what is now the United States (near modern