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tesies; while not all of them were famous swordsmen or archers, some were, and these probably provided models for subsequent Chi ...

animals themselves, the animal dances of Turkic animists seem a more likely source, especially if those dances were done by sorc ...

tial art practice forms have rectilinear patterns whose designs are similar to those used by Vedic astrologers to cast birth cha ...

Eighth century Vishnaivite monks living in Kerala, India, are described as de- voting their mornings to archery, singlestick, an ...

789 The Japanese aristocracy start patronizing kumitachi(sword dances). Their models were similar Chinese and Korean enter- tain ...

Tenth century A Punjabi weaver called Goraksha (a title of initiation; the man’s actual name is unknown) renounces the world to ...

claim to fame was that it trained its monks to run for many days and nights without stopping. The basis for such tales is the kh ...

1077 The Song-dynasty scholar Zhao Yong dies. Ming-dynasty schol- ars subsequently credited Zhao and his students with creating ...

on Ireland, and the victors were describing how it was being done, since in the earliest forms of the story, Cu Chulainn’s marti ...

1191 Chinese mathematicians start experimenting with the Indo-Ara- bic numeral zero. The transmitters were more likely Indo-Iran ...

1289 Kublai Khan issues orders prohibiting Chinese peasants from possessing swords, spears, and crossbows. Although these bans a ...

on the fifth hour of the fifth day of the fifth month. Since this was according to a lunar calendar, that meant around the be- g ...

France. His military exploits and hatred of the English en- deared him to the Welsh people, and when the Welsh rebelled against ...

Chinese destroyed it in 1959. In 1419, a rival sect established the Se-ra monastery at Lhasa. Because Tibetan political power re ...

and that King Shô Shin was actually stockpiling arms rather than suppressing them (Sakihara 1987, 164–166, also 199, fn. 76). Ab ...

About 1540 East Asian patent medicine salesmen start breaking bricks and boards with their bare hands, to convince skeptical cus ...

makes muskets more accurate, and concludes that demons guide the spinning balls; the result is bans against the manufac- ture an ...

1570 By doing single backward aerial somersaults, an Italian moun- tebank named Arcangelo Tuccaro becomes modern Europe’s first ...

scriptions of the Korean martial arts. Unsurprisingly, the book emphasized fighting with weapons rather than fists and feet. 159 ...

1624 Needing sugar to make their gin, the Dutch seize the sugar plantations of Salvador da Bahia. A year later, the Spanish ejec ...