Porembacolosseum

Step 4- Where to have fun

One of the funnest places to go in Ancient Rome was the Colosseum. It was almost like a football field and could hold probably just as much as one. It was alot like the modern day movie thetre and to be able to enter, you had to be a citizen. The seating was much alike greek aphlathetres, higher class sat up front and the rest of the citizens filled up the rest of the colosseum. The main sporting event at it were glatiator battles. Some fights were very hardcore. In almost ever y battle there was at least one death. The most common fights contisted of 1 on 1, 5 on 1, Man vs. Beast etc. Since it was so big, it was subject to many natural disasters like tornadoes, lightning strikes, and fires. Every emporer tried to maintain and rebuild it but after a while it was just to much work. Then in 404 a.d. glatitorial games were banned.



The roman Colosseum gave much of the idea of a football field. See the resemblence?



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