Why were games like football important to the military troops of the Han and Tang dynasties?

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.

Is there a passage that comes with this question or should i know this right off the bat, because if it is, i probably have short term memory loss or college is too stressful