EllisSuttonColiseum

The Coliseum

Coliseum Roads Aquaducts Nero Soldiers Merchants Home The [|coliseum] was used for entertainment purposes like gladiator fights and naval battles. The coliseum is similar to our movie theatre except that the coliseum could hold a lot more people!  ·   The Coliseum could hold about 70,000 people  ·   You only had to be a citizen to get into the coliseum  ·   The events that were held in the coliseum were: mock naval battles, gladiator fights, and hunts  ·   Some of the events could be held for 100 days  ·   The [|fighters] were made of slaves, prisoners, animals, and volunteers  ·   The sections were divided in to classes, officials were close and peasants were higher up   ·    There was a net in the front to protect people  ·   Under the floor was where the gladiators and animals were and lifts/ramps to get up