response: Modern skiing is traced back to Scandinavia.  However, there is evidence it was practiced in China many years before that
history: I tried to learn snow skiing.  I just never did very well. So I don't like it I see, but skiing has around 5000 years of history. That is a long time.  Was it invented in the Nordic countries?
knowledge: Although modern skiing has evolved from beginnings in Scandinavia, it may have been practiced more than 100 centuries ago in what is now China, according to an interpretation of ancient paintings.