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mallory The Colosseum ** The colosseum was impossible to miss when inside the **** Roman Empire ****. It was the place where all the excitement and action took place. Tens of thousands of fans screaming watching a man being eaten alive by lions or tigers. Know matter how bad your day could have been, the colosseum was the place to be. **   1. The colosseum held a total of 45,000 people could be seated there 2. Fights between gladiators and man and beast took place. 3. Sometimes random people could be chosen to be put in the battle between the beasts. 4. In the beginning of the colosseum, the arena could be flooded with water, but cages for man and animals were installed. 5. A wall separated the spectators from the events going on in the arena 6. Before gladiator battles were at the colosseum, they were used for funerals to show how much money a person possessed. 7. Romans loved to see one man killed by another man, and a man killed by innocent animals. 8. Some events had to be stopped, because the colosseum was damage by an earthquake. 9. Events started out as just mainly gladiator battles and battles between man and beast, but they began to get more bloody and gory, and the colosseum was more packed then ever.