what is the ancient ball game played by the Omec ?

Question

the game is similar to soccer ,the champion was sacrified to the Gods. Played at Machu Pichu, Peru

Answer 1

The sport of Life and Death
Its the first team sport in history.

Answer 2

The Olmecs lived very far from Peru. Not much is actually known of the rules or number of players...only that a probable hard latex ball probably had to be thrown, tossed or kicked through a round stone target that protruded high up in the stone arena. I have never heard that the champion was sacrificed...the defeated was or were sacrificed. Think about it....Why would you want to win?

Answer 3

The Olmec were an ancient pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico... Their immediate cultural influence went much further though, Olmec artwork being found as far away as El Salvador. The Olmec predominated in their lands from about 1200 BC to about 400 BC and they are, in fact, claimed by many to be the progenitors and mother culture of every primary element common to later Mesoamerican civilizations.
The name "Olmec" means "rubber people" in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica ("Aztec") people. Ancient Mesoamericans, from ancient Olmecs to Aztecs, extracted latex ... to create rubber as early as 1600 BC and were the originators of the Mesoamerican ballgame known in Spanish as juego de pelota and in the Olmec language as Ulama (from the Nahuatl “ullamaliztli” = "ballgame"). In its heyday in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, ulama was played by the Olmecs, Aztecs, Mixtecs and Maya in an area extending from modern-day Mexico to El Salvador and possibly in modern-day Arizona and New Mexico. I can find no mention of the game among the Inca, who lived hundreds of miles to the south across the nearly impassable Isthmus of Panama.

Answer 4

LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE ;)