How old is Rome? The city is 2,776 years old, the colosseum is 1,937 years old, and the Vatican museum’s Sistine Chapel is much younger- at only 512 years old.
Roman Colosseum
The roman Colosseum is the largest amphitheater ever built! The colosseum was the place where they held the gladiator games. These games were held to unite the people and celebrate their conquest over other men and animals.
In these games, a gladiator- often a trained fighter from a poor background- would fight other men or animals. Sometimes the game keepers would make a fake forest where an animal would go thru a trap door in the floor and the man in the forest would not know where the animal is, so the animal could often attack and kill the man without them knowing. The gladiators are trained men that fight in the games, they don’t all use a sword, some of them used a mace or a net to catch their opponent and then a spear to stab them.
Other fights happen in the coliseum as well. Sometimes they put prisoners in the stadium with an lion. The emperor also put christians in the arena to fight a animal like a lion or hippo, sometimes even a gladiator.
The seats were set up kind of like in a football stadium. The emperor and virgin girls would sit in a box in front of the arena, The people born into royalty sat up front and then the regular people then the poor and only a few women sat at the very top. 400,000 people died in the colosseum and that averages to about 5 people dying every 5 minutes during the open hours of the colosseum. It often smelled so bad that people used perfume to cover up the scent.
Quite the aging history in Rome. Not quite so “young” as here in the States. Well written Ezra and thanks for sharing the numbers as I am a numbers person as well. Gma