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Archeologicallly swimming is a recreational sport,the propulsion of the body through water by combined arm and leg motions and the natural floatation of the body.swimming as an exercise as an exercise is popularly known as an alround body developer and is particularly useful in therapy as an exercise gor majorly handicapped people.
Evidence shows thay swimming have been practiced as early as 2500 BCE in egypt and in Assyrian, Greek and Roman civilization. In Greece and Rome,swimming was a martial art training and also elementary education for men.
In the 1st century,In orient there were evidence of swimming race in Japan. An imperial edict in the 17th century had made swimming classes compulsory. While Organized swimming events started in the 19th century in a city in Japan,before Japan was opened to the western world.
Among the preliterate marigime people of the pecific,swimming was evidently learned by children about the time they start to walked or even before. Among the ancient greek,there is note of occasional races and a famous boxer swam.The Romans builf swimming pools distinct for their baths in the 1st century BCE. The Roman Gaius maecnus is said to have built the first pool
