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Badminton was known in ancient times; an early form of the sport was played in ancient Greece and Egypt. In Japan, the related game Hanetsuki was played as early as the 16th century. In the west, badminton came from a game called battledore and shuttlecock, in which two or more players keep a feathered shuttlecock in the air with small racquets.
Those who have studied the origins of checkers have also found a game called Alquerque, which was played in ancient Egypt as far back as 1,400 B.C. Alquerque remained very popular throughout the western world for thousands of years. The modern version of checkers developed around the start of the 12 th century when a Frenchman came up with the idea of playing checkers on a chess board.