davisromancolloseum

Links: Home , Entertainment , Weapons and Supplies of a Roman Soldier    Construction and use of Roman Roads,   Aqueducts, Slavery, Augustus Caesar  <span style="display: block; font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">The Roman Colloseum   <span style="display: block; font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">Imagine that you are standing in a big bowl. People are sitting and cheering all around you. You are about to start fighting against another person for the people’s entertainment. You are a gladiator, forced to fight for your life just so the people watching can be entertained. Your life depends on whether the people like you or not. If you are about to be killed at the end of the fight and the people give it a thumbs down, you will be spared, if they point their thumbs up, you will be killed. <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">This page is about entertainment in <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Rome <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-ansi-language;">, specifically, it’s about the gladiator matches that were held in the colloseum. <span style="display: block; font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">Source//: Roman News//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   Gladiators would fight each other and animals.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   The poorest people sat at the back of the arena and the seats closest to the arena were reserved for senators and other important people.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  The Colloseum hosted thousands of gladiator fights.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  The Colloseum opened in 80 A.D.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  The Colloseum could seat 50,000 people.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  There were three different types of gladiators.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  Gladiators were usually just slaves and criminals.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  The three types of gladiators were Retarius', Thracians, and samnites.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  A Retarius's weapons are a net and a long, heavy, trident.
 * 10) <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  Almost every modern sports arena built has some design element that was inspired by the [[image:http://www.instatravel.org/images/the-roman-colosseum_2263.jpg width="285" height="207" align="left" caption="The Roman Colloseum."]]design of the Colloseum.     [[image:http://www.stadiumguide.net/images/ClevelandBrowns1.jpg width="293" height="209" align="right" caption="The Browns' field. Notice any similarities?"]]