<P> The game had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames were held as ritual events . Late in the history of the game, some cultures occasionally seem to have combined competitions with religious human sacrifice . The sport was also played casually for recreation by children and may have been played by women as well . </P> <P> Pre-Columbian ballcourts have been found throughout Mesoamerica, as for example at Copán, as far south as modern Nicaragua, and possibly as far north as what is now the U.S. state of Arizona . These ballcourts vary considerably in size, but all have long narrow alleys with slanted side - walls against which the balls could bounce . </P> <P> The Mesoamerican ballgame is known by a wide variety of names . In English, is it often called pok - ta - pok (or pok - a-tok). This term originates from a 1932 article by Danish archaeologist Frans Blom, who adapted it from the Yucatec Maya word pokolpok . In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, it was called ōllamaliztli ((oːlːamaˈlistɬi)) or tlachtli ((ˈtɬatʃtɬi)). In Classical Maya, it was known as pitz . In modern Spanish, it is called el juego de pelota maya ("the Maya ballgame"), el juego de pelota mesoamericano ("the Mesoamerican ballgame"), or simply pelota maya ("Maya ball"). </P> <P> It is not known precisely when or where ōllamaliztli originated, although it is likely that the game originated earlier than 1400 BCE in the low - lying tropical zones home to the rubber tree . </P>

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