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Welcome to the Circus Maximus! Good thing you checked with us because this is no ordinary circus! The Circus Maximus was created by king Tarquinnius, and since has become one of the most popular attractions in Rome. This was mainly because of one key factor... IT WAS FREE! Now before you go taking the faimly down for a nice circus their are some things you need to know. First of all these were not safe. Since it was free it did not have the best seats, and by that i mean they had seats that would brake sometimes killing the fan. Now imagine those seats with 250,000 people! the biggest incident killed more then 13,000 bystanders! This also could be very deadly for the chariot racers. People wanted to win so badly they would often crash each others chariot sometimes for good. These races did not last forever, and the last race was held in 549 B.C.E. by King Tutila of the Ostrogoths. These races did help us create more safe games though. Have fun at the Circus, and vote on the purple one for me!