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Sep 10 2020

Animal Fighting In Ancient Rome

If you go to Rome today, you can see some places with broken stones and bricks, a deserted place from which you can imagine that this place was the colosseum in the ancient Rome.
At middle century, this place was a very glory colosseum, with fifty thousand seats, for people to enjoy their life. This was done purposely by the king at that time in order that he could control people more easily that the people would not be against him so much for his misconduct.
The programme of animal fighting will last one hundred days. In this period, nine thousand of animals will die in the fighting, including lion, tiger, elephant, bear, leopard even few hundred slaves also died.
These nine thousand animals were all imported from Africa which is three thousand miles away from Rome. The transportation fee was terribly high, plus many technical difficulty on the road. It was because in some area, they had to cross the sea on the way. Many animals would be seasick, no eating, no sleeping. When they arrived at Rome, they had to go animals’ hospital first to recover their energy for fighting.
In the beginning, fighting is between animals to animals, but later on audience did not feel exciting, and organizer put slaves to fight against the animals. If the salve won, the salve would be a free man or he died in the paws of the animals.