Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Health - Sport - Sport History, grade: A (very good), Armstrong Atlantic State University (Health and Physical Education), course: Team Sports Techniques II, language: English, abstract: Read an overview of the history of volleyball and basketball and their ancient precursors from the first ideas until the present games played all over the world. This paper also describes the ways in which the rules of those two popular team sports were changed and the reasons why they were changed.