Roman gladiator

Here's a web page that I found about Roman gladiator:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/games/circus.htm

Ancient Romans loved looking people fighting, they believed their gods did, too. A lot of Romans went to amphitheaters and payed money to see big and professional fightings. The amphitheaters were really big, they could contain thousands of people. Therefore, there must are good seats which could see the battles clearly and bad seats that could only see with an eagle's eyes.

The first fightings were armed men against animals which had brought from other faraway places, such as lions, tigers, alligators, bulls or ostriches. Most of the time, the animals were killed, but sometimes there were dead people's bodies on the battleground after a combat.

There is a lunchtime for audiences to take a break, and there were vendors who walked around and selled foods. During the time, there were some shows, too. They were some shows of singers, dancers or even criminals. They used some ways to kill the criminals, like: head cutting off, stabbing, pushing off a high tower or letting animals attack them. The ancient Romans believed that their gods loved to see justice done, and also liked to see criminals being killed.

After lunchtime, there were another shows of men versus men. The criminals or sometimes even slaves were taken to the arena. They only had inferior weapons against the perfectly armed warriors. Mostly, the criminals or slaves were all dead, but in small towns, some of the fightings were continued until someone was injured.



This is a Roman amphitheater. It becomes incomplete now. The perimeter of it are full of cars, but it's still majestical. It's still worth to take a look at the arena.










This is Amphitheater of El Djem, in Tunisia of North Africa. Furthermore, it is the second biggest in the Roman Empire, after the Colosseum in Rome.