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The Roman Coliseum The Roman Coliseum was a highlight of the Ancient Roman cities. People from all around came to watch the intense battles that took place. The ampitheater could hold up to 50,000 people. There were specific seats for the different social classes. There were battle between people, called Gladiators. Most of the Gladiators were slaves. The matches were always even, no glaidator had an advantage. The winner wins money and/or freedom, and the losers beautiful prize is death. The dead bodys of the losers get thrown into a cave. There were also battles between gladiators and big, vicious, dangerous and snarling wild animals like the lion! RAWR! A gladiator of great courage would be given a radias(A wooden stick) and placed his weapon in the temple of Zeus. At the end of the fight people dressed as Pluto and Mercury, the roman gods, came out. The person dressed as Pluto kills the dieing with one blow. Mercury sends the wounded to a doctor.

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