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The Colusseum   **The Colosseum was designed to hold huge crowds. It was also Rome **** ’ ****s venue for extravagant spectacles. The Colosseum was built between AD 69 and 82 and Rome **** ’ ****s Colosseum was considered a marvel of architectural engineering. ** ** The interior wall of the Colosseum in Rome was steeply pitched to provide everyone with an adequate view of the action in the arena. The amount of land the Colosseum covered was 6 acres. The Colosseum was 650 feet long, 512 feet wide and 158 feet high. There are 32 trapdoors in the arena floor, and nearly a mile of passageways under the floor. Each passageway under the floor leads to elevators and trapdoors. ** ** The first games ever had, lasted 100 days. The gladiators were the criminals, slaves, or captured prisoners from war. Pairs of gladiators are forced to fight to death. ** Instead of colloseums, we have sport arenas but those are used for sports. Although, the games played in the colloseum were a type of sport to them, so in a way, our present day arenas are like their colloseums.



__ Roman Collosseum __

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