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Home The Colosseum   The Colosseum is a main attraction in Rome. It is a huge building that can easily hold 70,000 people if they don’t mind standing. It holds lots of Rome’s’ most popular events. Gladiators, battles, and other exciting experiences call the Colosseum home   The Colosseum was built in 72 A.D. It has eighty arches and seventy-six of them were to help people find seats. It took ten years to build. It is one of the most well-preserved buildings in Rome.   There were lots of events held at the Colosseum. One was gladiator battles. The word gladiator comes from the Latin //gladius//. Professional gladiators would battle, usually to death, in front of a huge crowd. Most people think only men were gladiators, but women could be a gladiatrix! (gladiatrice plural) Gladiatrices were documented during Nero’s rule, and most likely had lived before his rule, too. Most gladiators and gladiatrices were prisoners of war or slaves. People in Rome appreciated torture and murder and fighting. Not appreciating this is considered non-Roman.   The Colosseum also held mock naval battles, executions, animal hunts, and some were thrown to the lions during Nero’s rule. Every event was in front of a huge crowd. It’s estimated that about 500,000 people and 1,000,000 animals have died in the Colosseum.   The Colosseum is a large part of Rome’s history

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